in the US, the position of a superintendent (= someone in charge of a government department or official activity, who makes sure that rules and laws are obeyed):
- He was fired from a previous job - the superintendency of the Yonkers, NY district.
- His first superintendency was Princeton, New Jersey, in 2005.
- Management problems from his former superintendency in Upstate New York have followed him.
- He will start the job with the experience of two urban superintendencies.