Firm chosen to lead search for Lemont High School superintendent

The Lemont High School District 210 board recently selected Pezanoski Consulting as the firm to lead the search for the district’s next superintendent.

Pezanoski Consulting will coordinate the search for the successor to current District 210 Superintendent Mary Ticknor, who has announced she will retire at the conclusion of the 2024-25 school year.

District 210′s school board received proposals from three leading superintendent search firms, including Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates; Illinois Association of School Boards; and Pezanoski Consulting. All three firms made formal presentations and submitted written proposals, which included their financial bids for the project.

”Selecting a superintendent is a vital task for a school board,” District 210 school board President Kurt Korte said in a news releaase. “The search is an involved process and requires the proper amount of time. This not only includes recruiting the candidates who are best qualified for the position, but also verifying backgrounds, conducting multiple interviews with candidates and ensuring all legal, community and board of education requirements are met.”

Because the search process is time-consuming and complicated, it is common practice for a school board to retain the services of a superintendent search firm. District 210′s school board used a search firm when it hired Superintendent Sandy Doebert prior to the 2002-03 school year, and again when Ticknor was hired prior to the 2012-13 school year.

Recruitment is an important and necessary part of finding the best superintendent for a school district. Pezanoski Consulting will use its network to attract the largest pool of candidates from which District 210′s school board ultimately will choose. That pool of qualified candidates will be much larger than it would be if the position were posted only on websites and newspapers.

District 210′s school board will team with Pezanoski Consulting to develop a timeline for the search process, which likely will include gathering input from the school’s faculty, staff, administration and school board, as well as the communities Lemont High School serves. District 210′s school board expects to name its next superintendent early in 2025.