Academy Prep hires two new officials

ST. PETERSBURG -- As Academy Prep works to establish a second center in Tampa next year, it has hired a new executive director to oversee the planned replication of the school and operation of the foundation.

The acclaimed private school for disadvantaged youth also has hired a veteran Florida educator as the director of graduate support for the St. Petersburg center, to work with Academy Prep graduates through high school and college.

The new executive director for Academy Prep is Janet Herron. Herron taught middle school and high school English for 10 years. After receiving a law degree from Stetson College of Law, she practiced law in St. Petersburg for 18 years. Herron became an ordained minister in 1998.

At the St. Petersburg center, Keturah N. Mills is the new director of graduate support. The St. Petersburg native taught in Pinellas County schools for seven years and received a doctorate in education from the University of Sarasota. She served on the faculty at St. Petersburg College since 1994, until joining Academy Prep.

The St. Petersburg center also inducted six board members. They are Steve Althoff, director of operations for the Sembler Co.; Darlene Grayson, first vice president for SunTrust Bank; Debbie Kraujalis, vice president and senior banking officer at Northern Trust Bank; Linda Marcelli, first vice president and managing director at Merrill Lynch; physician Paul McRae; and Michael Lewis, vice president of the coastal region for Progress Energy.

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