DANFORTH — The SAD 14 board of directors has announced the appointment of Thomas B. Brady of Brewer as the new principal at the East Grand School. He will assume his duties later this month.

Brady is employed now by the Training Development Corp. as the director of the Penobscot Job Corps Center in Bangor.

He is a 1966 graduate of Bowdoin College with a bachelor of arts degree. He received a master’s degree in public administration in 1974 from the University of Maine.

He has 24 years’ experience as a school administrator. He previously worked as assistant principal and athletic director at Messalonskee High School in Oakland, assistant principal at Brunswick High School, principal at Winslow Junior High School, and principal at Old Orchard Beach High School.

Brady and his wife, Sharon, will reside in the SAD 14 area.