The Superintendents: Muncie, a Twenty-Six-Year Silence, Reese, and Winchell

1972 – present · corporation-whole · as of November 2026

The current superintendent is Christopher Winchell, in office since 1 July 2019 on the state's own audit record; the line back from him is named at three points and silent for a generation between. Harold Rubert "Hal" Muncie heads the reached line: superintendent of PLJ from June 1972, then of the merged John Glenn corporation through the merger, serving twelve further years and leaving by April 1985 for Western Boone, where he served seven more and retired in 1992 — his own obituary the carrier, read first-hand, at family-supplied strength. Then the record reached goes quiet: no superintendent of the corporation between Muncie's departure, by April 1985, and the next named holder is carried by any source opened, and the silence prints as a gap rather than a guess (G-SC-5). Richard M. Reese is named as superintendent in board minutes of 15 November 2011 and 18 February 2014, at snippet strength, and his tenure segment of 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2019 is carried in the official record — the State Board of Accounts' federal compliance audit of the corporation, whose Schedule of Officials was read first-hand. Christopher Winchell's start is settled by that same schedule: "Christopher Winchell 07-01-19 to 06-30-20," succeeding Reese in the same official line. His own account in the minutes of 7 March 2023 places his first employment with the corporation in 2004–05 — "it was my first year of employment with John Glenn," said of that year's sectional title — in a role the record reached does not name; the post he held immediately before the superintendency was not reached and banks with the gap. Dr. Patrick Fuller serves under him as assistant superintendent, named in the August 2026 board agenda and reporting in minutes of July 2025. The same audit schedule carries the board's presidents across the handover — Jeff Johnson in 2017, Janice Ryan in 2018, Dennis Holland in 2019, Christian Mattix in 2020 — and the treasurer, Thomas L. Bendy, 2017–2020. Reese's own start date completes the gap register for this article (G-SC-5): the corporation's minutes run, which reaches back at least to 2011, and the successive audit schedules are its settlers.