Dr. Norman C. Sauce III
Dr. Norman C. Sauce III was appointed by the DeKalb County Board of Education to serve as Interim Superintendent of the DeKalb County School District in November 2025.
He recently served the DeKalb County School District (DCSD) as Chief of Student Services in February 2024. In this role, he supported and supervised the District’s Departments of Exceptional Education, English Language Learners, Gifted Education, and Early Learning and Pre-K.
Dr. Sauce also served DCSD as Area Superintendent for High Schools. In that role, he supervised a team of academic and climate support personnel and principals for 22 of DeKalb County’s high schools.
He also served DCSD as Region IV Superintendent. In that position, he supervised and supported the 17 schools and centers which then comprised DCSD’s Region IV, and their principals. This role included supervision and responsibility for a Micro-Cabinet team, in their pursuits to facilitate success within Region IV schools and centers.
Before returning to DCSD in November 2022, Dr. Sauce served the Griffin-Spalding County School System (GSCS) in the positions of Executive Director of Student Support Services and as Executive Director of Elementary Education.
Dr. Sauce also served as principal of Chamblee High School within DCSD and as an elementary principal within Fulton County Schools. He served as an assistant principal and social studies teacher at schools in his native Southern California before moving to Georgia.
Dr. Sauce currently serves on the Board of Directors for Communities in Schools Georgia: one of the most important non-profit connectors of families in need of wrap around services in the State. He previously served on the Board of Directors for The Lee Thompson Young Foundation: a leading non-profit in the national conversation around destigmatizing mental health.
He earned his Doctor of Education degree from the University of Southern California, his Master of Education degree from the University of California Los Angeles, and his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from California State University Long Beach. Dr. Sauce is the proud husband and father to his wife and twin boys.
The foundations of Dr. Sauce’s leadership are relationships, receptiveness, and responsiveness. He embraces Connors and Smith’s (2011) Results Pyramid, which posits that desired outcomes begin with ensuring stakeholders participate in desired experiences, which shape their beliefs, which influence their actions, which ultimately leads to our results.