A new principal has been named for St. Thomas More Academy in Middletown. According to the Catholic Review, Irene Wunderlich has been appointed to position.

"I am honored and excited to be part of the St. Thomas More family," Wunderlich says in a statement quoted by the Catholic Review. "This Catholic school brings me back to my roots of my childhood education, early teaching career and love of evangelizing the faith in the community."

Wunderlich served as director of youth ministry at St John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Frederick, and was on the Archdiocese of Baltimore's vocations committee.

Her education consists of a bachelor's degree in elementary education from St. Louis University in St. Louis, Mo., and a master's of religious education from Felician College in Lodi, NJ.

She is also the wife of George Wunderlich, the Executive Director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick.

St. Thomas More Academy is an independent school for students in pre-K through 8th grade. Last year, it moved from its former location along Buckeystown Pike to the Middletown Primary School building, which it leases from Frederick County Public Schools. The site on Buckeystown Pike is now the home of St. John's Catholic Prep, which recently relocated from Prospect Hall.