Principal Message

Meet the Principal

Celia Jolly, Interim Principal

Executive principal Celia Jolly

Ms. Jolly has worked for MNPS for more than 22 years as a teacher at Nashville School of the Arts and Stratford High, dean of students at Stratford, and academy principal and Overton and Hillwood High Schools. For the past five years, she has been the academy principal for Hillwood’s Art, Design and Communication/Engineering Academy.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in political science at Middle Tennessee State University and her master’s degree in educational leadership at Trevecca Nazarene University. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Trevecca.