The New President of Montgomery College

DeRionne P. Pollard was named president of Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Pollard will take office on August 2. She has been serving as president of Las Positas College in Livermore, California.

Dr. Pollard holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Iowa State University. She earned an educational doctorate from Loyola University in Chicago. In 1995 she joined the faculty at the College of Lake County in Illinois. She remained on the faculty and held several administrative positions at the College of Lake County before being named president of Las Positas College in 2008.

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