EDMOND — For the first time in Edmond Public Schools history, a woman will lead the district in a non-interim role. Angela Mills Grunewald will succeed longtime Edmond Superintendent Bret Towne, who will retire at the end of the 2020-21 school year. The district Board of Education chose Grunewald, Edmond’s associate superintendent for educational services, in a special meeting Tuesday. Aside from an interim superintendent in the early 1990s, Grunewald will be the first female superintendent of Edmond schools. She has served as a principal and administrator in the district. With 23,600 students, Edmond is the fourth-largest school district in Oklahoma, behind Epic Charter Schools, Tulsa Public Schools and Oklahoma