Distinction. Originally from the Meuse, having worked in Haute-Marne, Nathalie Benigni was promoted to the National Order of Merit on the proposal of Jean-Marc Huart, rector of the Nancy-Metz academy. Saturday June 1, in Giffaumont, his colleague Jean-Louis Mille, honorary inspector, had the privilege of looking back on his professional and sporting career.
Joining the Ministry of National Education in September 1981, this teacher, appointed to the Meuse, in Bar-le-Duc, was very quickly identified by her superiors as a high-quality, “dynamic and conscientious” professional.
In just a few years, she qualified as a trainer, with a Physical Education and Sports (EPS) option. Alongside her professional career, Nathalie Benigni leads a career as a high-level sportswoman: she is the French motorboating champion.
A few years after the end of her training, she was already considered an excellent school principal, a position she held in 1994 in Saint-Dizier. In 2000, she moved to a role as an educational advisor in PE, then an inspector in Langres. It was in 2011 that she was promoted to officer in the Order of Academic Palms, a distinction recognizing her merits and contributions within the educational community.
Back in her original department, Meuse, she will become inspector in charge of the Bar-le-Duc district, with “all the rigor and technicality required in this type of mission”. In 2018, Nathalie Benigni will join the Metz-Nancy rectorate to serve as a 1st degree technical advisor, a coordination role between the 1st and 2nd degree.
The Covid years will still be an opportunity to use your spirit of creativity to allow each student to continue their school career as best as possible, despite the confinements. On May 1, 2023, Nathalie Benigni asserted her retirement rights after forty-two years of good and loyal service.
Charles de Courson, MP for Marne, for his part, praised the contribution and commitment of Nathalie Benigni in the development of motorboating on Lac du Der. She was also for several years the energetic president of the Giffaumont club and held training functions within the federation. It is precisely in the premises of this club on the banks of the Der, in Giffaumont Champaubert that Nathalie Benigni wanted the ceremony to take place. Then it was with emotion that Gérard Guyot presented the insignia of knighthood in the National Order of Merit to “Nathalie, his lifelong friend”.
From our correspondent Sabine Laurent
