Ex-Charleston superintendent named interim replacement for Lexington 1 top job
A former Charleston County superintendent will take over the same job in Lexington 1 on an interim basis, after a vote by the school board on Tuesday.
Board members voted to hire Gerrita Postlewait as the interim superintendent beginning July 1. Postlewait was formerly the superintendent of Charleston County schools until she resigned last December.
“Dr. Postlewait is an experienced and highly-regarded educational leader with many years of experience,” said Lexington 1 school board chair Anne Marie Green. “We are excited about her serving the Lexington District One community in this time of transition.”
Postlewait will be paid $18,250 a month for her time overseeing the district, plus a $1,000 automobile allowance and up to $2,400 in housing allowance.
Postlewait had been the superintendent in Charleston since 2015, where she made $241,993 as of last year, according to WCSC TV. She got a contract extension in 2018 that would have carried her through the end of the 2023-24 school year, but a split board voted to accept Postlewait’s resignation midway through the current school year.
She previously worked as an assistant vice president for the testing company ACT. She also previously served as superintendent of Horry County schools from 1996 to 2006. Postlewait is a native of Georgetown.
In April, Superintendent Greg Little announced he was leaving Lexington 1 at the end of the school year. Little has been superintendent in the central Lexington district for six years, during which time he oversaw Lexington 1’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and a $365 million bond referendum that led to the construction of several new schools.
Little is leaving to take up an administrative post with South Carolina’s technical college system, an April news release said.
Lexington 1 is the latest district to see turnover in its top job. Next door in Lexington 2, Nicholas Wade recently stepped down after a year in the post, with former superintendent Barry Bolen named his replacement on an interim basis.
In January, Lexington-Richland 5 named education consultant and former Chapin High School principal Akil Ross as permanent superintendent. Ross had been the interim superintendent since June when he replaced former superintendent Christina Melton.
Lexington 1 hopes to have a new superintendent in place by September.
This story was originally published May 31, 2022 at 1:17 PM.
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