Dr. Kathy Segers was named Superintendent of the Governor Morehead School (GMS), beginning on January 2, 2026.
Dr. Segers is currently in her 41st year as an educator. She has served as a Teacher, Director of Special Education, Principal, Assistant Superintendent, and Interim Superintendent, in both public schools and at 3 schools for the blind in Georgia, Tennessee, and Louisiana. Dr. Segers is a Certified Teacher of the Visually Impaired, Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist, and Library of Congress Certified Braille Transcriber. She has an Ed. S. and Ph.D. in Educational Leadership. Working with programs for individuals who are blind and visually impaired and making sure that those individuals have access to high quality materials and services is what she considers her purpose and life’s work. She is very passionate about this and works hard to accomplish these goals for the individuals she serves.
Dr. Segers begin her career as a public-school music teacher in Georgia. She quickly fell in love with students with all types of disabilities while in this position and became certified to teach students with intellectual disabilities and visual impairments. She served students in Habersham, Stephens, and Banks Counties and Pioneer Regional Education Service Agency (RESA) in Georgia. She also served as Director of Special Education in Twiggs County Georgia. Dr. Segers was selected by the Georgia Department of Education to work for the Georgia Project for Assistive Technology to begin the Georgia Instructional Materials Center (GIMC) and to work with the AT needs of students across the state with visual impairments. She joined the Staff of the Georgia Academy for the Blind as Student Services Coordinator and then as Assistant Superintendent/Principal. She went on to become the State Consultant for Visual impairments with the Georgia Department of Education.
Dr. Segers retired from the Georgia Department of Education, but the retirement was short lived. Within 5 months, she was named the Principal of the Tennessee School for the Blind. She also served as Interim Superintendent and Director of Outreach and Tennessee Resource Center for the Visually Impaired.
Due to her husbands declining health, she retired from Tennessee and moved to Myrtle Beach, SC where she worked part time as a TVI/O&M through Allied Instructional Services in Hart County Georgia and the Pee Dee Region of South Carolina.
After her husband passed away, she moved to Louisiana School for the Deaf and Blind as Executive Director of State-wide Services and Supports. There she supervised the Outreach Programs for students in both the Vision Impaired and Deaf/ Hard-of-Hearing programs, the Accessible Educational Materials (AEM) Project, and the Louisiana Instructional Materials Center (LIMC).
Dr. Segers is happy to be in North Carolina and looks forward to working with the staff and stakeholders of the Governor Morehead School and others in the field of Visual Impairments across the state. Long term goals include, increasing the student census at GMS, repair, and renovation of building on campus, building a strong outreach program to support smaller districts and parents of students with visual impairments across North Carolina, and to promote increased communication and collaboration between departments within the school and networking with the larger community.
