Beverly Kingery

Beverly Kingery, a retired Nicholas County superintendent, was appointed to the West Virginia Board of Education in 2015 to a nine-year term. A longtime educator and Kanawha County resident, Kingery began her career in education in the early 1970s as a teacher after earning her bachelors degree in early childhood/elementary education. She later obtained as masters in reading education and another masters in educational leadership.

 

Kingery rose through the ranks by becoming a principal in Boone County and then by 2007 working as the superintendent of Nicholas County Schools. She worked at the West Virginia Department of Education from 1998 to 2007 as the Reading First project director as well as served as an adjunct professor at Marshall University.

 

Mrs. Kingery and her husband, Phil, have been married nearly forty years. He is retired from Consol Energy and the State of West Virginia. They have one son, Dr. Justin Kingery, and his wife Francesca of Louisville, KY.​