The Ketchikan School Board will meet tonight to interview and select the district’s newest interim Superintendent.
The meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the Borough Assembly Chambers at the White Cliff building, followed by Zoom interviews with the three candidates. The board will then enter executive session to deliberate, and will publicly announce their selection.
The three candidates for the position are Schoenbar Middle School Principal Sheri Boehlert, Tongass School of Arts and Sciences Principal Scott Huff, and Richard Rohlman, an educator from Sterling, Alaska.
The newest selection will replace PJ Ford Slack, who has been serving as the interim Superintendent since this summer. Her contract was initially set to expire in June of 2026, but she submitted her resignation to the board last month and will be working for the district remotely until the end of December. Ford Slack has agreed to fly back to Ketchikan for a week to train the new hire.
Borough Assembly member Dan Ortiz was also under consideration for the role until late last week when he withdrew his name. Ortiz said in an email that he removed his name from the list of applicants because he would have to resign from his position on the Assembly if he were to be named interim Superintendent.
The board will ask all three candidates the same interview questions. The interviews are open to the public, and contract negotiations will follow the announcement of the board’s selection.
