BELOIT—Wayne Anderson, a former superintendent from Williams Bay who served as interim superintendent for the School District of Beloit in 2022 and the Parkview district in Orfordville for two years, is one of three finalists for the interim superintendent job in Beloit.

On Friday, the Beloit School Board announced that Anderson was a finalist along with James Feil and Kerry Wilson. The school board will interview the candidates Monday night at a special board meeting beginning at 5 p.m. at the Kolak Center, 1500 Fourth St.

Feil is a former president of the Urban Day School in Milwaukee and superintendent in both Traverse City, Michigan, and Montello, Wisconsin. He served as interim superintendent in Manitowoc after leaving Montello.

Wilson is an education mentor at the Illinois Principal Association in Naperville, Illinois. Before that, she served as a school principal for more than 15 years in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, and for a little over a year for the Greater Chicago Arch Dioceses.

Anderson is well known to the Beloit district. He was superintendent at Mt. Horeb for 17 years and he was superintendent in Williams Bay for seven years. He served as the Beloit district’s interim superintendent from July 2022 until Willie Garrison II was hired as permanent superintendent in November 2022. He served as interim superintendent for the Parkview School District in Orfordville from 2023 until early 2025 when Shawn Galvin was named permanent superintendent of that district.

Garrison submitted his resignation in early October and will remain a district employee until the end of the year.

School Board President Tia Johnson, in a news release, said the board “anticipates” making an appointment by Nov. 17. Johnson said once an interim superintendent is on board, the board will then hire a search firm to begin the process of seeking a permanent superintendent.

Source: Beloit Daily News