By Christine Snodgrass, Staff Writer
In an effort to confirm the qualifications of superintendents statewide, the New Jersey Association of School Administrators has requested its members to provide communities with their complete educational backgrounds.
”By doing so, we will reassure school districts throughout New Jersey that their respective Chief Education Officer is fully qualified to move education forward in their community,” Executive Director Richard G. Bozza said in a statement. The group’s membership includes about 1,000 superintendents and school administrators throughout the state.
The superintendents of West Windsor-Plainsboro, Princeton Regional and Montgomery Schools have provided their educational backgrounds for publication.Victoria Kniewel, superintendent of West Windsor-Plainsboro School District, has three advanced degrees: a master of arts in learning disabilities from Montclair State University, in 1981; a master of science in education from Fordham University, in 1995; and a doctorate of education in executive leadership from Fordham University, in 1999.
In her career, she served as principal of Orchard Elementary School in the Ridgewood Public School District; assistant superintendent and principal for Ho-Ho-Kus Public School; and assistant superintendent for curriculum and personnel in the North Salem Central School District, New York. She began her career and West Windsor-Plainsboro School District as an assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction in August 2004. She was appointed superintendent of schools in 2007.
Judith Anne Wilson, superintendent of Princeton Regional School District, earned a Bachelor of Science cum laude in English and education from West Virginia Wesleyan College; a Master of Arts cum laude from Glassboro State College in reading education; and completed 30 hours of doctoral studies in language and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
From 1978 to 1982, Ms. Wilson was a reading specialist, department chair and English teacher at the Lower Camden School District. She then became a humanities supervisor and curriculum coordinator for Southern Regional High School in Manahawkin until 1987, when she rose to the position of assistant superintendent. From 1995 to 2005, she served as superintendent of Woodbury Public School District. She accepted her current position in 2005.
Earl Kim, superintendent of Montgomery Township School District since 2007,earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in 1984, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He began his teaching at Trenton Central High School in 1988, where he taught courses in math. In 1993, he graduated from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy.
Three years later, he was appointed principal of Emerson Junior-Senior High School, and in 2003, Mr. Kim became superintendent of schools in Verona, N.J.

