Blue Earth Area’s superintendent is staying put at her current job.
After interviewing Mandy Fletcher and St. James Superintendent Steven Heil during a special meeting Monday, the Albert Lea Area Schools School Board voted unanimously to hire Heil as the district’s next superintendent.
Heil was also a finalists for superintendent positions in the Byron and Kasson-Mantorville school districts.
Heil interviewed for the Kasson-Mantorville job earlier in the day on Monday and was scheduled to interview Tuesday in Byron.
Fletcher was one of 14 who applied for the Albert Lea position, that was filled with an interim superintendent after Superintendent Ron Wagner was placed on administrative leave last December.
Fletcher has been the superintendent at Blue Earth Area School District since 2019.