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Serving Frankenmuth since 1906

Volume 120 No. 23

December 10, 2025

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JoLYNN CLARK

Interim tag lifted, JoLynn Clark named as FSD superintendent

  Following an extensive search process that began in the summer, and board discussion by the Frankenmuth School District Board of Education, the board has offered the superintendent position to JoLynn Clark, pending contract negotiations with board members.

  Two finalists were interviewed from initial five chosen to be considered, and the interviews took place Monday evening, December 8, in the E.F. Rittmueller Middle School cafeteria. Also interviewed as D. Bruce Martin, a retired superintendent from Saginaw Township Community Schools.

  Pending the final negotiations, the interim tag will be lifted from Clark, who was named to that position in July when former FSD Superintendent Grant Hegenauer left the district to become Bay City Public Schools superintendent.

  The choice to name Clark came following the two interviews Monday evening.

  “JoLynn will be a tremendous leader of our district and she has the full faith and support of our board,” FSD President Brandon Muller said. “She has an incredible working knowledge of our district and our community, having graduated from Frankenmuth High School and worked in our schools for 18 years. She has expressed her excitement to serve in this new role and is committed to continuing the history of excellence in education that has been established by her predecessors.”

  Clark has served the district for the past 23 years, in the interim role since July, while continuing to serve as the high school principal, a role she has held since 2008. Clark has been the district’s Michigan Integrated Continuous Improvement Process (MICIP) coordinator and the State Continuing Education Clock Hours’ (CECH) program director, and prior to these roles, was a teacher from 2002-2008.

  Clark holds a master’s degree in educational leadership from Saginaw Valley State University, a master of arts in teaching from SVSU, a bachelor of science in education from Central Michigan University, and a bachelor of science with a psychology major and communication minor from CMU. .....

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