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Superintendent Search

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About the Search

Interim Superintendent Colt Gill has committed to serve through June 30, 2025, and support the district and school board in the search for a new permanent superintendent. The school board is responsible for selecting the superintendent, and is using a national search firm to recruit qualified candidates and ensure a hiring process that attracts the best educational leaders and values community and staff priorities.

Important Resources

Final Next Superintendent Criteria

Search Timeline 

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Community Input

To successfully lead the school district, the next superintendent must be a good fit for not only the students and staff, but for families and the entire Eugene community. To enable this, the search firm and school board will provide multiple opportunities for community members to share their priorities for a new leader. The firm and school board will gather input in November and early December 2024.

Community Survey

A short was offered to all 4J students, families, staff and community members from December 2-16, 2024. The survey asked about district priorities and key attributes of a new superintendent, which will help shape the recruitment of candidates. 

Focus Groups

In November 2024, the School Board invited students, families, staff and a variety of community members to apply to attend focus groups run by the search firm, to provide key characteristics and priorities for a new superintendent. Group participants were chosen by lottery and notified in late November. The search firm will conduct focus groups through December 13. 

Search Process

The logo for Human Capital Enterprises, featuring a shield with three people and the tagline 'Redefining Human Resources Leadership'.

On October 16, the school board unanimously voted to select Human Capital Enterprises the firm to support 4J’s search for its next permanent superinntendent. Over the past decade, Human Capital Enterprises has established ourselves as one of the most respected superintendent search firms in the United States. Although focused in the Pacific Northwest where the firm is best-known, its associates have served school boards as far away as Virginia and Maryland to the east, and California and New Mexico to the south. 

Learn more about Human Capital Enterprises

The school board has set an aggressive but achievable timeline for hiring a new superintendent. The search firm and school board will engage the community about their hopes for the attributes and qualities of a new superintendent in late fall 2024. Then the firm will recruit and screen candidates nationally from the end of 2024 into early 2025. Finalists are expected to interview in spring 2025, with a new superintendent hired in March. The incoming superintendent may then work with the interim superintendent and staff on preparation and transition, with the new superintendent formally starting on July 1, 2025.

  • April 1, 2024 — Colt Gill’s first day as interim superintendent
  • October 16, 2024 — School board selects Human Capital Enterprises as search firm for permanent superintendent
  • December 2-16, 2024: Online Community Survey
  • December 3-12: Community Focus Groups
  • December 20: Candidate recruitment window opens
  • January 8, 2025: Revised superintendent criteria presented to school board 
  • January 15, 2025: School board considers approval of superintendent criteria
  • February 10, 2025: Candidate recruitment window closes
  • February 26, 2025: School board reviews slate of candidates in executive session
  • March 3, 2025: First round of candidate interviews with the school board in executive session
  • March 10, 2025: Finalist candidate interviews with confidential community/staff/student panels
  • March 13-17, 2025: Finalist candidate interviews with school board in executive session
  • Late March/early April, 2025: Selection and public announcement
  • March-June 2025: Transition planning with new superintendent
  • July 1, 2025: New superintendent formally begins work in 4J

  • The logo for Human Capital Enterprises, featuring a shield with three people and the tagline 'Redefining Human Resources Leadership'.

    On October 16, the school board unanimously voted to select Human Capital Enterprises the firm to support 4J’s search for its next permanent superinntendent. Over the past decade, Human Capital Enterprises has established ourselves as one of the most respected superintendent search firms in the United States. Although focused in the Pacific Northwest where the firm is best-known, its associates have served school boards as far away as Virginia and Maryland to the east, and California and New Mexico to the south. 

    Learn more about Human Capital Enterprises

  • The school board has set an aggressive but achievable timeline for hiring a new superintendent. The search firm and school board will engage the community about their hopes for the attributes and qualities of a new superintendent in late fall 2024. Then the firm will recruit and screen candidates nationally from the end of 2024 into early 2025. Finalists are expected to interview in spring 2025, with a new superintendent hired in March. The incoming superintendent may then work with the interim superintendent and staff on preparation and transition, with the new superintendent formally starting on July 1, 2025.

    • April 1, 2024 — Colt Gill’s first day as interim superintendent
    • October 16, 2024 — School board selects Human Capital Enterprises as search firm for permanent superintendent
    • December 2-16, 2024: Online Community Survey
    • December 3-12: Community Focus Groups
    • December 20: Candidate recruitment window opens
    • January 8, 2025: Revised superintendent criteria presented to school board 
    • January 15, 2025: School board considers approval of superintendent criteria
    • February 10, 2025: Candidate recruitment window closes
    • February 26, 2025: School board reviews slate of candidates in executive session
    • March 3, 2025: First round of candidate interviews with the school board in executive session
    • March 10, 2025: Finalist candidate interviews with confidential community/staff/student panels
    • March 13-17, 2025: Finalist candidate interviews with school board in executive session
    • Late March/early April, 2025: Selection and public announcement
    • March-June 2025: Transition planning with new superintendent
    • July 1, 2025: New superintendent formally begins work in 4J