While teachers' trust in principals is the most commonly studied trust relationship between and among school stakeholders, left largely unexplored is trust between leaders within a school system. Findings presented answer the question: What are indicators of superintendent trustworthiness as experienced and perceived by elementary school principals? Four broad themes were found to capture superintendent characteristics relating to trustworthiness: (1) the nature and strength of a superintendent's support; (2) the extent to and ways in which a superintendent engenders a sense of autonomy in a principal's school-level leadership; (3) a superintendent's presence in the work of the principal and the principal's school; and (4) a superintendent's openness. Principals' perspectives of the role of superintendent trustworthiness in their school leadership is explored.