Sandy Ritchey Named Principal At Cherokee Bend

MOUNTAIN BROOK, AL - Two Schools in the Mountain Brook system will have new leaders when school begins in the fall, and both new principals are taking the helm of schools they have been serving in an administrative role prior to their new positions.

At Mountain Brook High School, Philip Holley was named the new principal, and at Cherokee Bend Elementary, Sandy Ritchey will take over the principal's office in the 2018-19 school year.

Ritchey was previously the assistant principal at Cherokee Bend, and came to the Mountain Brook system from Hoover City Schools to Crestline Elementary in 2013 where she was a reading coach for four years.

Ritchey has bachelor's and master's degrees in elementary education, an administrative certificate and an educational specialist degree, all from UAB. She is currently a doctoral candidate in educational leadership at UAB as well.

She has served as the president of the Birmingham Area Reading Council and is a member of the Alabama Reading Association and the International Literacy Association. In 2017, she was named an alternate Elementary Alabama State Teacher of the Year and won the first Jerome Lewis Legacy Award at CES, and in 2016 she was named the District VII Alabama Teacher of the Year and the Mountain Brook Teacher of the Year.

Photo from Cherokee Bend Elementary