Three applicants apply for superintendent position

Vermilion Parish’s next superintendent will have already worked in the Vermilion Parish school system. That is a guarantee.
This past Tuesday was the final day that the applications for the superintendent position in Vermilion Parish were received.
As early as this week the school board could interview the applicants and approve the hiring of one that same night.
When the mailbox was opened, there were only three applications inside, and all three had Vermilion Parish ties.
The applicants are Brad Prudhomme, Tommy Byler and Paul Hebert.
Prudhomme is the interim superintendent today for the parish and has been working in the parish school system for 37 years.
He has taught at Erath Middle, J.H. Williams Middle School and Henry High.
In 2004, he was the assistant principal at J.H. Williams Middle School.
From 2007 to 2020, he was the supervisor of Child Welfare and Attendance for the school district.
This past January, he was named as the interim superintendent.
Byler is the principal at North Vermilion High School where he has been since 2015.
In 2018, he was named the Louisiana High School Principal of the Year.
Prior to 2015, he was the assistant principal at NVHS for a year. He has 28 years in education, 22 of that as a teacher. He spent 16 of those 22 years at Erath High School.
Hebert is the assistant superintendent in the parish. He has held that position since 2013.
He has 18 years in administration and 10 years as a teacher.
He was the principal at Kaplan Elementary and Eaton Park Elementary before being named as the assistant superintendent under former superintendent Jerome Puyau.