Summary

This article is focused on ethical leadership perspectives and the school superintendency. To preface this content, a brief introduction of ethics is included as well as a concise review of ethical leadership research. The remainder of the article synthesizes three completed studies in the United States focused on ethical leadership perspectives and the school superintendency. More specifically, the studies reviewed in the article were aimed at determining how the ethical leadership perspectives of superintendents vary according to both leader demographics and state education/school district characteristics. In addition, the three completed studies reviewed within the article aimed to determine the ethical leadership perspectives of the state and district superintendents in the United States. In synthesizing the three studies, the article also prefaces forthcoming research in this arena to be launched in the near future in addition to other possibilities for connecting the research to the practitioner setting.