Kentucky Association of
School Superintendents

Mrs. Teresa “Terrie” Morgan is in her eighth year as Superintendent of Hardin County Schools and her 35th year as an educator. She has spent her entire career with HCS. Mrs. Morgan’s passion is that all HCS decisions should be student-centered.

Her educational career began in 1989 as a special education teacher at Vine Grove Elementary School. She was also an intermediate teacher during her time there. In 1997, she accepted a primary teaching position at Woodland Elementary School. In 2000, she was hired to be Woodland Elementary School’s assistant principal. She became the principal at Woodland three years later and served in that capacity for eight years.

She became HCS Director of Elementary Curriculum and Instruction in 2011. She had the opportunity to work with all the schools in the district in that capacity.

The Hardin County Board of Education asked her to serve as Superintendent of Hardin County Schools in March, 2016 and she started full-time in that role on July 1, 2016. She has overseen aggressive growth in academic rigor, curricular and extra-curricular opportunities for students, successful community and social program and enrollment. She recently earned the 2024 Kentucky Association of School Administrators Superintendent of the Year.

Mrs. Morgan is a 1989 graduate of Brescia College. She earned her Master of Education Degree from Western Kentucky University in 1994. She obtained her Principal Certification in 1997 and her Superintendent Certification in 2014 from WKU.

Mrs. Morgan is married to C. H. Morgan and they have three sons – Alexander, Christopher and Nathaniel.