Shenandoah University Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership student Annmarie Noonan was recently awarded the American Association of University Women’s Dr. Amy Lee Parker Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to a woman enrolled in SU’s Division of Education and Leadership and is applied toward spring tuition.
Noonan, who is in her third year in the Ed.D. program, is the principal at North Fork Middle School in Shenandoah County, Virginia.
The Dr. Amy Lee Parker Endowed Scholarship was first awarded in 2021. Parker, a graduate of Shenandoah University’s Ed.D. program, was a leader whose commitment to children and education became her lifelong focus. A principal at a local school, Parker had a passion for women’s influential role in education and encouraged women to pursue leadership and education simultaneously.
Parker was involved in the Winchester branch of the AAUW, where she served a leading role in events and forums to promote women’s leadership in education. At the time of her death, she left a generous endowment to the AAUW to support women in educational leadership.
