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# New positions filled in Santa Monica-Malibu school district
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/new-positions-filled-in-santa-monica-malibu-school-district/
- Published: 2002-04-29T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:15:42.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Malibu, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Two administrative positions were officially filled by the school board at its Thursday meeting.

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified school board voted unanimously to continue to employ Laurel Schmidt as director of pupil services and hire Lise Reilly as the new principal of John Adams Middle School. Both women, who have extensive careers with the school district, will start their new jobs on July 1 — the beginning of the school district’s fiscal year.

Reilly, who is currently the interim assistant superintendent of educational services for the district, has taught at the pre-school, elementary and high school levels in regular and special education.

For the past six years she has coordi-nated professional development and articulation for staff within the Adams Pathway of Schools.

Schmidt, who already has served in her position for three years, was instrumental in developing a comprehensive school safety program for the school district.

Before joining the school district in 1992 as a teacher at the Santa Monica Alternative School House, Schmidt taught classes in kindergarten through middle school in the Los Angeles Unified School District. In 1995, she was named principal of Franklin Elementary School, the largest elementary in the school district.

She also is an adjunct professor at Antioch University and a member of the Education Advisory Board of the Natural History Museum.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 29, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/042902.pdf?ref=smdp.com)