Public charter school boards and their superintendents have a responsibility to plan for the future, including for the next school superintendent. Superintendents serve as the Chief Executive Officer responsible for overseeing academic, financial, and operational performance of the school system. The job of school superintendent is very complex and challenging. High turnover and lack of formal superintendent succession planning can leave a charter school in organizational crisis from which they may never recover. Succession planning in the private sector has occurred because of outside pressure from investors, but research clearly indicates that public schools in general, both traditional independent school districts and charter, have not followed suit. A qualitative grounded theory methodology was utilized to investigate the perceived role of North Texas public charter superintendents related to the process of superintendent succession planning. The researcher conducted 13 interviews with charter school superintendents in North Texas. Two formal, written superintendent succession plans were identified, but data analysis did not result in theory development. Instead, a descriptive qualitative methodology was adopted and two description types of superintendent succession plans emerged from the current study results. They are referred to as complete succession plans and incomplete succession plans. Complete succession plans had formal, written superintendent succession strategies, which provided an emergency plan, a long-term strategic plan, and a leadership strategy to prepare potential superintendent candidates for board consideration. Incomplete succession plans were informal, verbal succession strategies. Incomplete plans in the current study ranged from unfinished or informal plans to no plan, which all were deemed incomplete. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]