Father Judge High School has named Jim Meredith its new president, effective Aug. 17.
Meredith is a 1992 Judge graduate.
The Rev. Joe Campellone has been serving as interim president for the last year.
The last permanent president, Brian King, in February moved to a job with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia as Director of Strategic Initiatives for Secondary Schools and Schools of Special Education.
Meredith earned a politics degree from DeSales University and a master’s in Educational Leadership from the old Cabrini College. He once worked as a sports writer for the Doylestown-based Intelligencer newspaper.
In his education career, he taught at St. Katherine of Siena, Monsignor Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast before moving to Archbishop Ryan.
Meredith was at Ryan from 2001-15, serving as a teacher and administrator, then principal from 2013-15.
In 2015, he became principal at Pope John Paul II, staying for two years.
From 2017-18, he worked for the archdiocese as Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Schools.
Meredith was principal at Nazareth Academy High School from 2018-23.
In 2023, he left Nazareth to become principal at Lansdale Catholic, staying for three years until accepting the job as Judge’s president. ••
