(From Joplin Schools)Joplin Schools would like to ask you to help celebrate the retirement of Dr. Ron Lankford, assistant superintendent for business services. This is the third time Dr. Lankford as retired in his 48-year career in public education.
Lankford retired the first time in June 2010 after 33 years with the Webb City School District. He was named Superintendent of the Year in 2009 by the Missouri Association of School Administrators.
After that he accepted a position as at the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education as deputy commissioner for financial and administrative services, working for the state for six years before retiring in 2016.
Dr. Lankford, who has served as human resources director and assistant superintendent for business services over the past five years with the Joplin School District is retiring yet again.
Dr. Lankford has been a driving force in education both in Southwest Missouri and the State and pave the way for many other educators and administrators to follow. His expertise, humor, style of communicating very complex issues in very simple and understandable manner will be missed.
We are grateful for the time he has spent with Joplin Schools and the phenomenal fiscal situation he has created for the district. We wish him well on his retirement and want to thank him for the bridges he has built for others to cross over.
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