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Dr. Lyle C. Ailshie Dory Creech
Superintendent of Schools Assistant Superintendent
Kingsport City Schools Kingsport City Schools
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Dory Creech is the Assistant Superintendent for Kingsport City Schools.
Dr. Lyle Ailshie has served as Superintendent of Kingsport City Schools since March 2012. Prior to this position, she served as Director of Accountability for seven years with
Before coming to KCS, Dr. Ailshie served in Greeneville (TN) for seventeen years, including KCS. During her time as the Director of Accountability, Dory served the First Tennessee
twelve years as Director of Schools. Since arriving in Kingsport, he has led the school Region as a Regional Value-Added Specialist and as the secretary for the First Tennessee
system through a re-visioning process that includes the creation of a comprehensive Supervisor’s Study Council. Dory was born in Key West, Fla. and grew up in a military
strategic plan. The system was named one of three system level Tennessee SCORE Finalists in 2013 and 2014. family. She lived and attended school in numerous locations including Spain, Florida, and Virginia. In 1981, she
In 2014 KCS was named the top school district in Tennessee as winner of the 2014 SCORE Prize District Award! earned her B.A. in Special Education and Elementary Education from Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tenn.
The system is in the process of implementing its technology vision, has implemented Malcolm Baldrige Criteria She received her M.Ed in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from East Tennessee State University in
to improve its processes, and has implemented a copyrighted innovation rubric. The system continues to serve 2001.
as one of Tennessee’s elite in terms of student performance and professional practices. The school system is in Dory has been an educator for over 30 years and has served as a special education teacher and an elementary
the first year of implementing a new performance-based teacher pay plan. education teacher. She has taught in three states (Georgia, Louisiana, and Tennessee), with the last 26 years at
During his tenure in Greeneville, the school system was awarded the International Society for Technology in Kingsport City Schools. In addition to being a classroom teacher, Dory served as a school administrator at the
Education (ISTE) 2008 Sylvia Charp Award for district innovation in technology. Dr. Ailshie is a past President of elementary and secondary level.
the Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents and was named the 2005 Tennessee Superintendent Dory is active in her community and has served on numerous non-profit boards. She currently serves as the
of the Year. He is the Past President of the Association of Independent and Municipal Schools (AIMS). He is vice-chair on the executive board and the board of directors for the Greater Kingsport Family YMCA, the
the first, and only, Honorary Lifetime Member of the Tennessee Educational Technology Association (TETA). United Way of Kingsport Board of Directors and serves on the Board of Examiners for the Tennessee Center
Dr. Ailshie is one of twenty-two members of the Executive Committee of the American Association of School for Performance Excellence.
Administrators (AASA), the national superintendents’ organization. Most recently in October 2014, Dr. Ailshie She and her husband reside in Kingsport. They have three grown children and four grandsons.
was named to the Center for Digital Education (CDE) list as one of their Top 30 Technologists, Transformers and
Trailblazers. In June of 2015, he was appointed by Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey to the Standards Recommendation Jennifer Guthrie
Committee (SRC) and currently serves on the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence (TNCPE) Board of
Directors. Chief Human Resources Officer
Prior to his tenure as Greeneville City Schools Director of Schools, Dr. Ailshie held the role of Greeneville’s Kingsport City Schools
Assistant Superintendent of Instruction. His 34 years of educational experience (16th year as superintendent) Jennifer Guthrie, has been with Kingsport City Schools since July 2015. Prior to joining
also includes positions as an Assistant Principal at Morristown-Hamblen High School West, as well as serving KCS, she served as Human Resources Manager and Corporate Council for United Coal
as a principal, teacher, and coach in Hawkins County Schools. He began his career as a high school teacher and Company in Blountville, TN, a leading metallurgical coal producer employing a 1,300
coach in South Carolina. non-union employee workforce.
Dr. Ailshie received his Doctorate of Education (1996) and Master of Arts in Teaching (1984) from East Tennessee She has more than a decade of legal and HR experience working with legal firms in Miami, FL and Knoxville,
State University. He completed a Bachelor of Science/Sociology from Francis Marion College in Florence, South TN as a corporate attorney. Early in her career, Jennifer also spent time as a high school teacher and
Carolina in 1981. volleyball coach/sponsor in Miami.
Dr. Ailshie and his wife Vanessa have three daughters, Tracie, Hilary and Karli, two son-in-laws, Tyler Neas and Jennifer holds a B.A. from East Tennessee State University, a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law,
Andrew Wolfe, and two granddaughters, Harper and Ainsley. and is licensed to practice law in Florida and Tennessee.
She and her husband reside in Kingsport.
