Search Updates

Updates on the search for the next SAIS president will be posted on this page (www.sais.org/search). Direct link to position description here.

Sept 28, 2023

The new president of SAIS will be announced on September 28.

July 31, 2023

Resumes and letters of interest were submitted by 34 candidates as of the July 14 deadline. The search committee reviewed the materials and met last week to discuss the candidates, ultimately selecting nine semifinalists to move forward in the process. Each semifinalist will have a Zoom interview with members of the search committee, complete a Predictive Index assessment, and participate in a detailed conversation with the search consultant, Jack Hall, partner with CarterBaldwin Executive Search. The search committee will convene again later this month to select three to five finalists who they will interview in person in early September. The new president of SAIS will be announced in late September.

May 8, 2023

• Applications Now Being Accepted + Lori Spear Named as Acting President as of 7/1/2023
• Direct link to position description here. Applications due 7/14/2023.

March 30, 2023

• SAIS Selects CarterBaldwin as Search Partner

Feb 2, 2023

• Announcement from Jackie Westerfield, Chair, SAIS Board of Trustees

• Leave a message for Debra here

Search Committee
The search committee includes:

• DuBose Egleston | Porter-Gaud School | Charleston, SC (board vice chair)
• Autumn Graves | St. Anne’s-Belfield School | Charlottesville, VA (board secretary)
• Adam Greene | Episcopal School of Jacksonville | Jacksonville, FL
• Stuart Gulley | Woodward Academy | Atlanta, GA
• Palmer Kennedy | Jackson Academy | Jackson, MS (board treasurer)
• Mark Reed | John M. Belk Endowment | Charlotte, NC (past board chair)
• Lori Spear | SAIS | Atlanta, GA
• Kelley Waldron | St. Andrew’s School | Savannah, GA
• Jackie Westerfield | Grandview Preparatory School | Boca Raton, FL (board chair)