OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha school board has named an interim superintendent during a nationwide search for a permanent leader.

The board named Virginia Moon to the post during a special meeting on Monday. Moon, previously superintendent of Ralston schools, was selected on an 8-4 vote following heated discussion and calls for board President Freddie Gray to step down.

The board hired Nancy Sebring, the superintendent of the Des Moines, Iowa, school district, in April to replace John Mackiel, who’s retiring. Sebring abruptly left her Iowa job in May. She lost the Omaha job after emails to a lover on her district computer were made public.

The question of whether Gray should remain as president was put on the agenda for next week’s regular meeting.