When business leaders in Reno, Nevada, last summer were courting a medium-size software developer to relocate its headquarters from Emeryville, California, they turned to someone who has become their chief sales agent to clinch the deal: Jim Hager, superintendent of the Washoe County School District. Hager accompanied a handful of other county officials on the recruitment trip and wound up answering the bulk of the questions from the firm's anxious managers and staff. Three months later, the company confidently made its move. This article contains a brief profile superintendent, James Hager, and the work that he has done in his school district.