The National Association of Elementary School Principals has elected Steven Geis, principal at North Trail Elementary in the Farmington district, to serve as president-elect beginning July 1. A year later, he will assume the role of president.

Geis has served on the organization's board of directors since 2012. He has also been a leader with the Minnesota Elementary School Principals Association (MESPA) and the Farmington Principals Association.

He has won several awards, such as a MESPA Leadership Award and a 2008 Japanese Memorial Fulbright Scholarship.

In 1993, he began his career as a middle school social studies teacher in Lake Elmo and moved to take a position at Farmington Middle School a year later. He worked his way up at the school, eventually being named associate principal and then principal. He has been principal at North Trail since 2005 while also working as a professor at St. Mary's University of Minnesota.

The National Association of Elementary School Principals is a professional organization serving elementary and middle school principals and others throughout the United States, Canada and abroad.