Josh Henderson selected as Elizabethtown High School principal

Elizabethtown Independent School District Superintendent Paul Mullins announced Monday that Josh Henderson has been appointed as the high school’s new principal.

Mullins said Henderson is a good fit for the position.

“He came to us with five years of high school principal experience, and it’s a tough job, and he’s done a wonderful job in Cumberland County High School, and then speaking with his superintendent and with others, we just know Mr. Henderson is going to be a good fit for us at Elizabethtown,” Mullins said.

EIS says Henderson began his education career as a social studies teacher at LaRue County High School in 2007. He took jobs in other school districts including in Hart County before becoming Cumberland County High School’s principal in 2019.

Mullins thanked the hard work of the district’s selection committee in running the principal search and interview process.

“First we created a survey, and from that survey we took that data and created criteria, and that criteria that came from our survey created the questions for the principal interviews, and in the end we narrowed it down to four school administrators, and we conducted interviews last week,” Mullins said.

Mullins said he is excited to see Henderson get to work.

“I know that he’s going to hit the ground running,” Mullins said. “I know he’s got a lot of work to do, and I also want to say thanks to Mr. Tim Mudd who’s serving as the interim principal at Elizabethtown High School. He has also agreed to serve in that role in transition through the end of July.”

Henderson is a graduate of Caverna High School, with a bachelor’s degree from Western Kentucky University and a master’s from the University of the Cumberlands. He and his wife Samantha have one son.