Dr. Byron C. Hulsey
Head of School

Byron Hulsey serves as the eighth Head of School in Randolph's 47-year history.

Hulsey has enjoyed an accomplished academic career. A graduate of the Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, he earned his B.A. degree from the University of Virginia in 1990, where he received a prestigious Jefferson Scholarship. The Texas native went on to earn M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas in Austin where he was a Patterson-Banister Fellow in American History. In 2000, Hulsey returned to his alma mater, the University of Virginia, as the Associate Director of its renowned Jefferson Scholars Foundation. In that capacity, he taught seminars, recruited scholars, ran the Foundation's Institute for Leadership and Citizenship, launched its Graduate Fellowship Program, and secured major gifts to its endowment, currently valued at $139 million.

Hulsey left the Foundation in 2003 to serve as Assistant Headmaster at Norfolk Academy in Norfolk, Va., an independent day school serving 1,200 students. Hulsey's duties there encompassed classroom teaching, faculty and staff recruitment, supervision of libraries and technology services, and oversight of both the honor code and the Initiative for School Excellence, Norfolk Academy's planning mechanism. He also assisted in the successful execution of a $40 million capital campaign and a $20 million construction project.

Hulsey moved to Huntsville, Alabama with his wife and young son in summer 2006 to begin work as Randolph's President and Head of School.