‘No secrets’ says Hoover schools president after no public interview for school superintendent Updated 7:45 PM; Facebook Share It didn’t have to happen, either. It was yet another curious search. To many, curiously clandestine, too. Yet it didn’t have to happen. Not this way. At a special call meeting late Wednesday afternoon, the Hoover City Schools Board, which summarily—and surprisingly—rejected five finalists earlier this month, named retired educator Dee Fowler as the next Hoover City Schools Superintendent, pending the negotiation of a three-year contract. Fowler, a former superintendent at Madison City Schools, did not apply for the opening and was never publicly interviewed.