Junior high teacher enters county superintendent race

The Daily Inter Lake

Kalispell Junior High School teacher Susan Letz Keedy officially is in the running for Flathead County Superintendent of Schools.

Letz Keedy, a Republican, became the second candidate for the post when she filed nomination papers last week.

Fellow Republican and current Superintendent Marcia Sheffels announced in February that she will try to keep the job which she took over last July. Sheffels was appointed to the post after Donna Maddux retired at the end of June.

A third-generation Montanan, Letz Keedy grew up in Bozeman and earned her bachelor's degree in art and speech communication from Montana State University. She pursued education studies for a fifth year at the University of Montana and has taken further college courses over the years.

She has spent her entire 30-year education career teaching in School District 5, primarily at the junior high but with some time at Laser School.

She currently teaches eighth- and ninth-grade art and speech at the junior high.

She is married to Michael Keedy and has two stepchildren and two grandchildren.