{"id":198146,"date":"2025-10-02T22:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/198146\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T22:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:14:12","slug":"governor-stitt-appoints-lindel-fields-as-new-oklahoma-state-superintendent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/198146\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Stitt appoints Lindel Fields as new Oklahoma State Superintendent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Kevin Stitt has appointed Lindel Fields as the new State Superintendent, following the official resignation of Ryan Walters on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stitt made the appointment in a conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>BACKGROUND:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news9.com\/story\/68d4bb8a5cea03f8db8ead55\/supt-ryan-walters-announces-resignation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supt. Ryan Walters announces resignation<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news9.com\/story\/68d5bf88791876835b2d8362\/governor-stitt-prepares-to-appoint-new-state-superintendent-after-walters-departure\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Governor Stitt prepares to appoint new State Superintendent after Walters\u2019 departure<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news9.com\/story\/68d75fae954825fdc9673c15\/oklahoma-leaders-await-walters-official-resignation-letter-to-move-education-forward\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma leaders await Walters\u2019 official resignation letter to move education forward<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Who is Lindel Fields?<\/p>\n<p>Fields has worked in the education sector in Oklahoma for more than three decades, most recently serving as the CEO of Your Culture Coach.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently based in Tulsa.<\/p>\n<p>Fields studied at Oklahoma State University from 1991 to 1996, graduating with a B.S. in Trade and Industrial Teacher Education. He went on to further his education at Southern Nazarene University, getting his M.A. in Education Leadership from 1997 to 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Lindel began \u201cYour Culture Coach\u201d in May 2021 and currently serves as the CEO. The company\u2019s website states their mission is \u201ctransforming education,\u201d and their vision is \u201cWe elevate leaders and transform cultures to recruit and retain passionate and loyal team members through world-class training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fields served as the CEO and Superintendent of Tri-County Tech, a public-sector educational institution from July 2009 to May 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Walters\u2019 Exit<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Walters announced his resignation last week on FOX News, saying he will become CEO of the Teacher Freedom Alliance, a branch of the Freedom Foundation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news9.com\/story\/68d54b7111a1e952533af257\/what-is-the-teacher-freedom-alliance-how-is-ryan-walters-involved-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What is the Teacher Freedom Alliance? How is Ryan Walters involved?<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Walters officially began his new role on October 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following his resignation, Gov. Kevin Stitt named Fields to serve the remainder of Walters\u2019 term as State Superintendent.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Governor Kevin Stitt has appointed Lindel Fields as the new State Superintendent, following the official resignation of Ryan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,114385,78204,114382,3,9600,32374,114383,106729,114384,48161,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-198146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-freedom-foundation","tag-kevin-stitt","tag-lindel-fields","tag-news","tag-oklahoma","tag-ryan-walters","tag-southern-nazarene-university","tag-teacher-freedom-alliance","tag-tri-county-tech","tag-tulsa","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}