Longtime Alamance-Burlington school system principal Dr. Julie Hancock Turner has been promoted to serve as the new executive director of elementary education for ABSS. Turner replaces veteran ABSS educator Dr. Jean Maness, who retired this spring as the executive director of elementary education this spring, capping a 39-year career in public education that began in 1985 with the former Burlington city school system. Maness began her career as an elementary school teacher, before going on to serve as an assistant principal at Andrews and Eastlawn elementary schools and ultimately rising through the ranks to the Central Office post.