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Dr. Pennell is now serving in his seventh year as Principal of Prince of Peace Catholic School. He has been a teacher and administrator in Catholic schools since 1991. He joined Prince of Peace as Principal in June, 2005 as the school entered its third academic year. He had previously served four years as Assistant Headmaster and Head of Middle School at St. Joseph’s Catholic School in Greenville.
Since 2005, Dr. Pennell has supervised the growth of the school from a K5 to 4th grade with130 students to a K4 to 8th grade with now almost 270 students enrolled for the 2011-12 school year.
Before arriving in Greenville in 2001, Dr. Pennell worked in Catholic education in the Diocese of Dallas at the middle school, high school, and college levels. He had served on two Texas Catholic Conference Accreditation Commission (TCCAC) teams in the late 90’s – for Bishop Lynch High School and for Dallas Jesuit. He is currently leading Prince of Peace Catholic School through the accreditation process with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools or SACS. He also serves as a member of the Catholic Diocese of Charleston's Governance and Leadership Committee which reviews state-wide SACS accreditation standards for the Catholic schools.
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Dr. Pennell has attended Catholic schools since Kindergarten. He attended St. Raphael's Catholic School and Cathedral High School in his native Canada as a youth, and he later earned a Bachelor’s Degree from the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire. He continued his studies earning both a Master of Arts and Ph.D. from the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts at the Catholic University of Dallas in Dallas, Texas. He earned a certificate in Catholic Schools Administration in the University of Dallas’ Catholic School Leadership Program.
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