Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools: CMS Announces New Chief Technology Officer

Press release from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools:

12/14/2021

A new personnel appointment was announced at the Dec. 14 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education meeting.

Candace Salmon-Hosey was named chief technology officer for CMS. She has been executive director of Technology Services in Guilford County Schools since 2019 and was executive director of Information Technology Services in Durham Public Schools in 2019. Salmon-Hosey was chief technology officer (2016-2019) and executive director of technology (2013-2016) in Rowan-Salisbury Schools. She also worked for Alamance-Burlington Schools as executive director of Technology Services and Career Technical Education (2006-2013) and as a district lead technology teacher (2003-2006), district technology facilitator (2001-2003) and technology teacher/coordinator (1995-2000).

Salmon-Hosey earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a master's degree in instructional technology from East Carolina University, Greenville. She also earned a Specialist in Education degree and a Doctor of Education degree, both in educational leadership and cultural foundations, from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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