Las Lomas High Welcomes Its New Principal

Las Lomas High School welcomed its new principal, Matt Campbell, at a reception this afternoon.

Students mingled with faculty and administrators from Acalanes Union High School District to meet the man replacing who retires at the end of this school year after 17 years.

"I am honored and extremely humbled to take over for Mr. Lickiss and to try to improve on and advance the policies … he had in place," said Campbell between handshakes at today's reception.

Campbell, a doctoral candidate at St. Mary's College in Moraga, will officially start his new position on July 1. Until then, he'll wrap up his duties as a middle school assistant principal in Pleasanton, where his career as educator first started more than 20 years ago.

Campbell grew up in Pleasanton and graduated from California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo before moving onto graduate school at Lesley College in Cambridge, MA. Fresh out of grad school, he returned to Pleasanton where he taught social studies in Pleasanton Unified School District. In 200o, he was elected to the Pleasanton City Council. According to the Pleasanton Weekly, he was the youngest on the council at the time and the first teacher to be elected. 

He went on to work for four years as assistant principal at Foothill High School in Pleasanton before taking on his most recent job.

Campbell said he looks forward to meeting as many new friends and students as possible in his new school district.