Virginia M. Minshew,
Loudoun County Public Schools, is principal at Farmwell Station Middle School. Dr. Minshew began her career in education in 1981, with Fairfax County Public Schools as a coordinator in the Area IV administrative office as well as a learning and disabilities teacher until 1985 at Chantilly High School in Chantilly, Va. In 1985, Dr. Minshew became a learning disabilities teacher at Washington Irving Intermediate School in Tarrytown, N.Y. From 1986 to 1988, while pursuing her graduate degree, she was a graduate assistant with the department of educational leadership at the University of Virginia and worked with the Virginia Association of School Superintendents. In 1988, she joined Loudoun County Public Schools as assistant principal of Broad Run High School in Ashburn, Va., where she remained for nine years. In 1997, she was assistant principal of Potomac Falls High School in Potomac Falls, Va., and assumed her present position in 1998. Dr. Minshew holds a BA degree in sociology and social studies education from Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory, N.C., an MEd in special education/learning disabilities from George Mason University and an EdD degree in educational administration and supervision from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.