Principal Imelda Munivez has been a probation officer, a teacher, and a counselor before becoming the principal of HHS.

"I’m not from Harlingen actually," Principal Imelda Munivez said.

Regardless of where she came from, she knew where she wanted to go. The school that had tradition, spirit, and success was the one she always looked to while growing up.

"You kind of get stagnant in one place," Munivez said. Having three different assistant principal positions in seven years meant she had no time to stay still. But her job history was diverse even before she arrived on the Harlingen High Campus.

"I was in the trenches," Munivez said. "My first job was at a juvenile detention center."

Getting a job at the Brownsville Probation office was luck during a time when the job market was rough and a car payment was waiting on a fresh-out-of-college-21-year-old.

"I was not expecting to get into education," Munivez said. After job at the probation office for five years, she took her government degree and with only a few more certifications began teaching World History at Los Fresnos for nine and a half years.

"I’ve been very lucky," Munivez said because shortly after taking the "big principal test," a principal position opened at the very campus she had always admired, had always wished to attend. She jumped right in, no regrets, just a desire for a new goal to tackle.

"The rest is history." Munivez said.

But her time as Head Principal has just begun. She admits to never having any time to rest, let alone become stagnant, and she enjoys every hectic moment.

"I did not get to come here when I was a teenager," Munivez said, "but now I get the chance."