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The Henrico County School Board approved new administrative appointments including three new principals who are taking the place of three retiring principals. The promotions and retirements will take effect July 1.
Jessica Burbic has been promoted to the principal at Short Pump Middle School. She is now an associate principal at Godwin High School.
She will take the place of Kimberly Martin (Sigler), who joined Henrico County Public Schools as a teacher at Moody Middle School in 1999 after teaching for seven years in Stafford County. After teaching for five years at Moody, she worked as an administrative aide and intern with Henrico Schools for a few years before being promoted to assistant principal at Hungary Creek Middle School, where she worked for four years. Sigler became principal of Pocahontas Middle School in 2009, then took over at Short Pump Middle School in 2019.
Ellen Gonzalez has been promoted to principal at Echo Lake Elementary School. Until the end of this year, she is an associate principal at Maude Trevvett Elementary School.
Gonzalez is taking over for Cynthia Foust, who has been the principal of Echo Lake Elementary since 2013. Foust joined Henrico Schools in 1980 when she was hired as a special education teacher at Tuckahoe Middle School, a position she held for 11 years before moving to Short Pump Middle in the same role for five years. She also worked as a resource teacher at Tuckahoe Elementary and Twin Hickory Elementary before being promoted to assistant principal at Twin Hickory in 2012.
Cassandra Willis, a Title 1 specialist, has been promoted to principal at Montrose Elementary.
The current principal, Theodore (Ted) Durniak is leaving his post after nine years in his role at Montrose Elementary. When Durniak came to HCPS from Isle of Wight County Schools in 2005, he served as principal of Baker Elementary School for eight years.
