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Indiana University's honors record; the corporation's record; the Tribune's meeting coverage, 2016–2026 — the succession is complete only from 1993, and says so
From 1993 the line is named whole. Virginia (Brown) Calvin, 1993–2000 — the first African American superintendent in Indiana and the first woman to hold South Bend's seat. Joan Raymond, 2001–2006 — whose Plan Z reorganization (next article) rebuilt the ladder Clay's schools sat on. Then Robert Zimmerman, 2006–2008; James Kapsa, 2008–2011; Carole Schmidt, 2011–2016 (her retirement and her successor's contract were both June 2016 board business); Kenneth Spells, 2016–2019; and Todd Cummings, 2019–2025 — approved in February 2019, extended four years in October 2020, and separated in a transition printed whole: on 19 February 2025 the board's separation agreement placed him on paid administrative leave through 30 June 2025, when he formally resigned (a later account puts a $225,000 buyout in the package, at report strength). The current holder is Mansour Eid — named acting superintendent the same 19 February 2025 meeting, contracted that April, retained for 2025–26, and renewed on 12 January 2026 (6–0, one abstention) at a $212,321 base. His own course touches this town directly: before the superintendency he was principal of Clay High School — Roseland's school — and Director of High Schools/CTE. The transition ahead prints as announced: on 9 October 2026 the Tribune reported Eid will retire effective 30 June 2027, with a national search to begin around the new year; as of November 2026 he sits, in his announced final year, and no successor has been chosen. Two seams print unmerged (conflict C21): the reference record's "hired as interim in March 2025" against the Tribune's February acting appointment and April contract; and a January 2026 account's contract term running to June 2028 against the October announcement's June 2027 retirement — retirement mid-contract on the later report. Before 1993 the succession was not reached — nor any 2000–01 interim between Calvin and Raymond — and the line is not printed as complete back to 1867 (G-SC-1).