Janice Adams is Region 4 Superintendent of the Year

Update: January 28, 2012

In an email to school district staff, it was announced that Benicia Unified School District Superintendent Janice Adams has been selected as the Region 4 Superintendent of the Year.

Adams was elevated to the position of Superintendent after being the principal at Robert Semple Elementary School.

The email sent to district staff by Assistant Superintendent Michael Gardner said in part, "I have just received notification that Janice Adams was selected as the 2011/2012 Region 4 'Superintendent of the Year'."

Adams had already been selected as the Solano County Administrator of the year.  Another Benicia educator who won a county award is Jane Abelee, the principal of Liberty High School was selected as the Soloano County Alternative Education Principal of the year.

Gardner said he and Adams worked together on Abelee’s nomination and he had nominated Adams.  “Janice didn’t know she was nominated and Jane didn’t know either,” said Gardner. “It was a surprise for both of them when they won in Solano County.”

In the regional competition Adams received letters of support from Chief Andrew Bidou of the Benicia Police Department and Jay Speck, the Solano County Superintendent of Schools.

The California Association of School Administrators sponsors the competition.  The association breaks the state into 19 regions.  Region 4 includes Lake, Mendocino, Sonoma, Napa, Marin and Solano counties. 

Patch will update this article as more details become available.  Adams is at a meeting of superintendents from around the state and was unavailable for comment.

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