Hays Consolidated Independent School District board of trustees voted to hire Ann Dixon as the district’s interim superintendent during a special board meeting yesterday.

Dixon has more than 40 years of teaching and leadership experience and has most recently worked as an interim superintendent in 16 other school districts in Texas.

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HCISD Board President Merideth Keller said she looks forward to Dixon joining Hays CISD.

“I am excited to have Dr. Dixon join our Hays CISD family, even if it is for a brief period of time. Her talent and experience will be tremendous assets during our period of transition,” Keller said.

According to an HCISD news release, Dixon began her career in education in Austin, where she worked as a speech pathologist. She was employed by Copperas Cove and North East ISD in San Antonio until she moved to Judson ISD, where she worked for 18 years. She was named superintendent of Somerset ISD in 1990, and Dixon has been published in publications such as the Texas Study Research Journal and Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association Journal.

Dixon will start in Hays CISD next week and will serve until the district names a permanent superintendent, likely in January 2018. The district has hired the search firm Thompson & Horton to assist with the nationwide superintendent search.