Interim Chief
Financial Officer Jacquelyn Carlen

Jacquelyn Carlen is the Interim Chief Financial Officer. Carlen has served as CCSD’s Executive Director of Finance since 2017. She has been responsible for helping produce balanced budgets that led to increases in teacher pay, growth of the district’s fund balance, and a decrease in the district’s debt. During her time as CCSD’s Executive Director of Finance, the district earned a AAA rating by Moody’s Investors 

Service and positive reviews from annual financial audits by Greene Finney Cauley, LLP. Carlen, a graduate of R.B. Stall High School, received her Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration from 

Charleston Southern University. Carlen is a current member of the Southeastern Association of School Business Officials and the South Carolina Association of School Business Officials (SCASBO).

She is also a SCASBO-certified school business official.