Leuzinger Principal Named

The Centinela Valley Union High School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to appoint Sonja D. Davis, formerly assistant and interim principal of Leuzinger High School, as principal.

Davis, a former English and social studies teacher with 21 years of experience, will fill a vacancy left by Andrea Harris, who resigned two years ago to take a job as principal of Healdsburg High School north of San Francisco.

Davis, 46, was selected at Tuesday night’s school board meeting after being unanimously recommended by a nine-member selection committee. Davis of Mission Viejo was chosen from 147 applicants, including 10 principals and five former principals.

Before being interim principal at Leuzinger during the 1988-89 school year, Davis was an assistant principal at the school for three years. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Adelphi University in New York and a master’s degree in anthropology from New York University.