VERGENNES — At the same time that Addison Northwest School District hired Jody Chamberlin as the new principal of Vergennes Union High School, the board on March 14 also brought aboard April Jean Wortman as the VUHS director of school counseling.

Wortman will come to VUHS from Mount Abraham Union High School, where she’s served as the director of school counseling and supports since July 2020. For three years before then, she was the Mount Abe student support coordinator, and she served there as a high school counselor for a year prior to that.

Wortman, a Hinesburg resident, has a 2008 master’s degree in school counseling from Seattle University and bachelor’s degrees from Springfield College (2000) and The College of New Jersey (1998).