William Smith Sr.

Board Vice Chair
Huntington, West Virginia

Biography

Bill Smith retired as the superintendent of Cabell County Schools in 2017, after a spending more than 40 years as an educator, supervisor and mentor in the county school system. As superintendent, he is credited with establishing the Explorer Academy–the state’s first school to use the Expeditionary Learning model of education–and the implementation of “wall-to-wall career academies.”