LILBURN--Mary Ann Radnovich, an educator with over 20 years experience in Catholic education, has been named principal of St. John Neumann Regional Catholic School effective with the 1997-98 school year.

Currently principal at Mary Star of the Sea Elementary School in San Pedro, Calif., she will join the staff at St. John Neumann in July.

Radnovich has served as principal at the Catholic school in San Pedro since 1986. Before that, she worked as a middle school teacher at Nativity School in Torrance, Calif., and St. Joseph School in Hawthorne, Calif. She also worked as an intermediate teacher at Our Lady of the Rosary School in Paramount, Calif.

The Department of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles honored her for 20 years of ministry in Catholic education in February 1996.

In a statement after her selection as principal of the Lilburn regional school, Radnovich said, "It is with great pleasure that I have accepted the position of principal of St. John Neumann Regional Catholic School. I am very excited and eager to work with the students, staff and parents of the school's community."

"Catholic schools provide a unique setting and best opportunity to realize the purpose of Catholic education: to proclaim the message revealed by God; building and living community in the life of the Holy Spirit; giving service for the good of all people. I ask God's blessing upon each of us as we work together to educate the children of St. John Neumann Regional Catholic School."

Radnovich received her undergraduate degree in sociology from Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Conn., and her degree in education from Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Conn. She earned a master's degree in private school administration from the University of San Francisco.

St. John Neumann Regional School was honored as a national Blue Ribbon School of Excellence in 1994.

Kathryn Wood, assistant principal, is serving as acting principal. A seven-member committee conducted a national search for a new principal.