Los Lunas High School - Principals

Rex Hennington was hired as principal at Los Lunas High School in Spring 1998. Before LLHS he was an assistant principal at Los Lunas Middle School. Prior to being employed by Los Lunas Public Schools, Hennington was a football coach at Clovis, Las Cruces, Belen, and Hobbs High Schools. Principal Hennington died in April 2007 after a short battle with cancer.

Gina Sallie was named principal in the Spring of 2003 when Rex Hennington became district Athletic Director. Sallie was popular with students and was instrumental in changing several key policies at Los Lunas High School.

Los Lunas High School's 2006-2007 principal, Dr. Dan Webb, of Pasadena, CA, brought changes to the school including a ban of all electronics from school grounds. Webb was also behind a controversial proposal to separate approximately 300 "at-risk" students, "voluntarily," from the general school population in the hope of earning their high school diploma. This proposal received critical feedback from the community as it would have created a "double standard" allowing some students to graduate with only 23 of the required 30 credits.

Claudia Krause-Johnson was named principal of Los Lunas High School in late June 2007. She replaces Dr. Dan Webb, who moved to Santa Fe, NM to lead Santa Fe High School. The firing of Krause-Johnson comes after she left Santa Fe High School in March 2007 for health reasons. School district superintendent Walter Gibson joked at the July 3, 2007 board of education meeting that "it was a straight trade, no draft picks." In the interest of student safety, Krause-Johnson has instituted a policy requiring all faculty, staff, students on campus to display an ID card at all times; all visitors are required to check-in at the school's administration offices.