INDIANAPOLIS — The Board of Trustees at Martin University announced recently that Dr. Eugene G. White, former superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), has been appointed interim president of the Indianapolis-based institution.
Dr. White, who retired from the IPS post in April after seven years on the job, succeeds Dr. George Miller, who announced his resignation at Martin on August 16. Dr. Miller will leave Indianapolis shortly to assume another education position in the south.
Before becoming IPS superintendent in 2005, Dr. White served as superintendent of Washington Township Schools for 11 years. From July 1992 to January 1994, he was deputy superintendent of IPS.
In 1990, he became first African American principal of North Central High School in Indianapolis, serving until 1992. During the 19 years prior, Dr. White was a teacher, coach and school administrator in Fort Wayne Community Schools and was the first African American high school principal ever to serve in that system. In addition to a B.S. degree from Alabama A & M, he holds a 1971 M.S. degree in school health from the University of Tennessee, plus Ed.D. and Ed.S. degrees from Ball State University.
