Elon alumna Wesley Langford Swain '04 appointed high school principal

At a board meeting earlier this month, Wesley Langford Swain '04 was appointed Principal of Park View High School in Mecklenburg County Schools in South Boston, Virginia.

<span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);”>Wesley Swain '04 (right) with Superintendent Paul Nichols (left).</span>
Wesley Langford Swain ’04 has taken on the new role of high school principal with Mecklenburg County Schools in South Boston, Virginia.

Swain received her undergraduate degree in secondary English education from Elon before receiving her master’s of educational leadership in 2009 from Longwood University. She taught eighth grade Language Arts at both Bluestone middle and high schools before becoming assistant principal in 2014.

This past spring, Swain split her time as assistant principal at Bluestone and Park View High Schools as part of an administration shuffle before being named principal at Park View High School.