Two Hoover Principals Set To Retire

HOOVER, AL - Two longtime educators in the Hoover school system will retire as school lets out for the 2017-18 school year. Hoover High School principal Don Hulin and Shades Mountain Elementary principal Juli Feltham each announced their retirements after a combined 40 years in the Hoover system.

Hulin, who came to Hoover in May 2008, will officially retire in December, but according to a report by the Hoover Sun, Superintendent Kathy Murphy said the school system will go ahead andhire a new principal prior to the start of the 2018-19 school year.

Before coming to Hoover, Hulin spent eight years as principal at Marbury High School, a K-12 school in Autauga County. He graduated high school in Covington, Louisiana, and is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and member of the Louisiana National Guard.

Hulin's contributions to Hoover High School include the effort to convert the school's separate freshman campus into a middle school and pull hundreds of ninth graders back into the main school in the fall of 2011. He also was in charge during the construction of a three-story, 36-classroom expansion that was completed in 2013, giving HHS a total square footage of more than 400,000 square feet and the capacity to handle 3,100 to 3,200 students.

Feltham started with the school system at its inception in 1988. She spent time at Green Valley, Trace Crossings and South Shades Crest elementaries before ultimately landing at Shades Mountain Elementary.

The Hoover Sun reports that Feltham’s retirement will take effect Aug. 1, so Murphy said she hopes to have a replacement lined up by July 1.

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