Heather Perry

Heather J. Perry is Superintendent of Schools for the Gorham School Department in Maine, where she has served for 10 years. The Gorham School Department serves approximately 2,800 students in Cumberland County. In her 30 years of experience as a Maine public school employee, she has worked her way up from the role of an educational technician, to middle school social studies teacher, to building principal, and now serves as a passionate Superintendent of Schools for the past 20 years in Maine.

She received her Ph.D. from the University of Southern Maine in Public Policy, her Masters of Educational Leadership from the University of Maine and her Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Maine at Machias.  She currently serves as a member of MSSA’s Executive Board at the state level. She has recently completed service as a member of AASA’s Executive Committee at the National Level. She is a mentor for the AASA Aspiring Superintendents Academy and has recently been named a regular blogger for AASA.  She is a graduate of Educate Maine’s Educational Leaders Experience, Alpha class.  She volunteers her time mentoring for young women in the Olympia Snowe’s Women’s Leadership Program and is a proud wife, mother, and grandmother!