The former assistant superintendent of the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind has been appointed to the school's top job.
The State Board of Education has named Linda H. Rutledge superintendent of USDB.
Rutledge is a former principal of the Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind in Gooding, Idaho. She has worked as USDB's interim superintendent since May, replacing Lee Robinson, who resigned, the State Office of Education announced.
The state school board reorganized USDB leadership following an unflattering legislative audit. The audit, presented to lawmakers last winter, found the school kept a too-high budget surplus and unnecessarily left nine positions unfilled.
Robinson since took a job as the program director for the North Region School for the Blind.