Margaret Delk Moore
CONSULTANT, EXECUTIVE COACH
Margaret Delk Moore is a native Virginian. She graduated from St. Margaret’s School in Tappahannock, Virginia, and received her Bachelor’s degree from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College (Randolph College) where she was actively involved in student leadership and governance as well as athletics. Margaret received her Master’s degree in Christian Education from Virginia Theological Seminary. She has continued to be actively involved in independent schools with over thirty years of experience as a parent, volunteer leader, trustee, and school administrator. She has served in leadership roles on the Boards of the Virginia Association of Independent Schools, the Southwestern Association of Episcopal Schools, the Arizona Association of Independent Schools, the Arizona Episcopal Schools Foundation as well as two independent school boards in Virginia. Currently, Margaret serves on the Board of Trustees for Randolph College in Virginia. In her Board work, she has served in leadership roles for strategic planning as well as development and fundraising.
In her school leadership roles, Margaret served as the Head of School at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Newport News, Virginia from 2002-2011. Following an Interim Headship at St. Martin’s in the Field Episcopal School in Severna Park, Maryland, Margaret moved to the desert Southwest where she served as the Head of School at St. Michael’s Parish Day School in Tucson, Arizona from 2012-2018. She returned to her home state of Virginia in 2018 to serve as the Head of School for The Williams School in Norfolk before retiring in 2022 from full-time school leadership. Prior to her school leadership, Margaret worked in the banking industry, working in the human resource area as a personnel officer and leader in the development of affirmative action plans. This work was instrumental in her more recent work for diversity, equity, and inclusion in schools. Prior to her selection as the Head of the parish day school, she served as the Director of Christian Education for St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church.
With experience in smaller K-8 schools, three of which were Episcopal parish day schools, Margaret has often worn many hats including active participation in all areas of Admissions, Marketing, and Development. She carries a passion for the practice of good governance and has worked with her Boards in the orientation and training of new trustees. She is skilled in the navigation of governance in parish day schools, working with parish vestries and boards of trustees. As a relationship builder, Margaret has developed networks and contacts throughout her schools and their communities, cultivating a broad network of fellow administrators, faculty, trustees, and school constituent groups, working together to achieve common goals. She enjoys supporting faculty and administrators in reaching their goals and particularly holds a deep interest in supporting and encouraging women to achieve success in leadership roles.
Margaret and her husband Bill currently make their home in Norfolk, Virginia. Their three children are graduates of independent schools in Virginia and graduates of Lynchburg University and Washington & Lee. They frequent Richmond and Baltimore routinely, visiting children, grandchildren, and grand-dogs along with their own Aussie, Shep. She enjoys sitting on the beach with a good book or hiking anywhere, locally, in the Southwest, and abroad. Her happy place, however, is anywhere with family and friends and the relationships she has cultivated along life’s journey.
