sentences:  Before the 1987-1988 school year, the city of Knoxville and Knox County operated separate school districts.In that year the two systems were consolidated into Knox County Schools.List of Knox County School Superintendents (1869-Present)
  
  M.C Wilcott 1869-1873 
  
  Thomas Conner Karns 1873-1875
  
  H.M Brothers 1875-1876
  
  H.G Hampstead 1877-1878
  
  Frank Smith 1879-1880
  
  William Gibbs 1881-1883
  
  John Shipe 1883-1885
  
  James Saylor 1886-1888
  
  J.C Ford 1889-1896
  
  D.P Duggan 1897-1900
  
  Sam Hill 1901-1907
  
  E.R Cate 1907-1910
  
  Monroe Wilson 1911-1917
  
  William Stooksbury 1917-1922
  
  William Morris 1923-1934
  
  Leonard Brickey 1934-1946
  
  Mildred Doyle 1946-1976
  
  Earl Hofmeister 1976-1992
  
  Allen Morgan 1992-1998
  
  Roy Mullins 1998-1999
  
  Charles Lindsey 1999-2007
  
  Roy Mullins 2007-2008
  
  James McIntyre 2008-2016
  
  Buzz Thomas 2016-2017 (interim)
  
  Bob Thomas 2017-Present 
  
  
  Lists of Knox County City School Superintendents (1871-1988)
  
  Alenander Baird 1871-1875
  
  Reverend H.T Morton 1875-1878
  
  R.D.S Robertson 1877-1881
  
  Albert Ruth 1881-1897
  
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