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While students were enjoying time off from school, Walter Womack III was busy planning for his third year as principal of Simmons Middle School.
But he doesn’t mind, even if it requires committing to office hours in the heat of the summer because the best part of his job is “working with our stakeholders and ensuring our students are successful in all their endeavors,” he said.
Womack grew up in Greenville, AL, about 125 miles south of Hoover. While he originally wanted to be a civil engineer, his passion for education led him down a different road, and fortunately for Hoover, to the role of principal at Simmons.
During his career, he has served as a teacher in Dallas County, Jefferson County, and Tarrant City Schools. He has also held several administrative roles at Tarrant, including as an attendance officer, administrator of the alternative program, athletic director, principal of Tarrant Middle School and principal of Tarrant Elementary School.
Throughout his more than 22 years in education, Womack’s core belief has always been that great schools are the results of great teachers. Now, his primary objective, he shared, is to “ensure that every student is receiving high quality instruction from every teacher at Simmons Middle.”
When he was not preparing for the new school year, Womack was relaxing and spending time with family. While he plans to enjoy dinners at Firebirds and summer blockbusters at AMC Patton Creek. He said his favorite things about the Hoover are not bound by seasons, but are the “supportive community, commitment to excellence, and rich traditions.”