Hamilton County Schools Chief of Staff T. Nakia Towns Edwards is one of five candidates for a superintendent position in Louisiana.
Towns Edwards participated in a round of virtual video interviews with the East Baton Rouge Parish School System, a public school district with about 90 schools in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, earlier this month.
She was selected as one of the finalists in the district’s hunt for its next superintendent in March, according to the local newspaper, The Advocate, in Baton Rogue. Two of the finalists are current employees of the school district and the out-of-town finalists include Towns Edwards, Leslie Brown of Broward County Public Schools in Florida and Marshall Tuck, former president of a California-based charter school group, according to The Advocate.
Towns Edwards was appointed chief of staff by Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Bryan Johnson in December 2017.
She had previously been a candidate for the Hamilton County superintendent position, but Johnson ultimately got the job and took over leadership of the district in July 2017.