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Tom Bean ISD board approves multiple 2025–26 hires, records resignations
Summary
The Tom Bean ISD Board accepted several resignations and approved probationary contracts for new hires for the 2025–26 school year, recording unanimous 6–0 votes (one member absent) on each hire.
The Tom Bean Independent School District Board of Trustees on June 9, 2025 accepted a series of personnel changes and approved probationary contracts for several new hires for the 2025–26 school year.
Board members recorded resignations from Wes Chapman, Kim Teague, Samantha Marsh and Jennifer McCarthy and approved reassigning Elisa Gray to middle‑school English. The board approved probationary contracts for new instructional hires including Davina Herron (Pre‑K), Julie Lillibridge (Kindergarten), Chelsea Lindstrom (5th‑grade ELAR) and Cody Henry (high‑school English), and approved a dual‑assignment probationary contract for JD Sullivan as head basketball coach. Each hire motion passed with a roll-call tally of 6 in favor, 0 opposed and 1 absent.
Several board members moved and seconded the hiring motions: Shawna Merriman moved the motion to hire Davina Herron (seconded by Scott Renfro); Beth Hale moved the motion to hire Julie Lillibridge (seconded by Tom Sharp); Shawna Merriman moved to hire Chelsea Lindstrom (seconded by Colten Miller); Tom Sharp moved to hire JD Sullivan (seconded by Scott Renfro); and Beth Hale moved to hire Cody Henry (seconded by Colten Miller). The motions were recorded as passed on the record.
The hires are recorded as probationary contracts for the 2025–26 school year as recommended by campus principals and the superintendent. The board did not specify start dates or salary lines for each hire in the public minutes; those details are not specified in the transcript.
