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Board of Trustees

2023 School Board

 Board of Trustees with Superintendent Dr. Rob Picou

 

Sherry Davis

Sherry Davis, President

Mrs. Davis is a life-long resident of Tupelo. A graduate of Tupelo High, Mrs. Davis continued her education at Itawamba Community College and the University of Mississippi earning a B.A. in Business, a Liberal Arts degree in Biology and a Masters in Educational Leadership. She began her teaching career at Tupelo Middle where she earned the honor of Tupelo Public School District Teacher of the Year and the Walmart /Phi Delta Kappa National Teacher of the Year. In 2002, she became a National Board Certified Teacher in Science and later taught Biology for five years at Tupelo High School. She is currently an Anatomy & Physiology Instructor at Itawamba Community College with 30 years of teaching experience.

 

Amy Tate, Board Member

Amy Tate, Secretary

Amy Tate was sworn in as the newest board member on Nov. 8, 2022. A member of the Tupelo community since 2005, she currently serves as the Government Relations Manager for the Tennessee Valley Authority. In 2006, she was named by the Mississippi Business Journal as one of its Top 40 Under 40 and in 2017 was in the Top 10 of the Top 50 Leading Business Women in Mississippi. A native of Natchez who graduated from the Mississippi University of Women, she and her husband, Kevin, have two children — Avery, a junior at Mississippi State, and Walker, a junior at Tupelo High School.

 

Hope Huey, Board Member

Hope Huey, Vice President

Mrs. Hope Huey has been a member of the Tupelo community since 2004. Her two sons are graduates of Tupelo High School and her daughter is a current student of THS. Mrs. Huey attended Amanda Elzy High School and continued her education at Tougaloo College, where she earned a degree in Biology prior to obtaining a degree in Nursing from Ole Miss. Following college, she worked as a nurse coordinator for the University of Mississippi Medical Center's Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program.
 
 

 

Paul Mize III, Board Member

Paul Mize, III is a First Vice President of Commercial Lending at BankPlus. He is married to Bonnie, and have two sons, Henry (8) and William (6). Mize, a Top 40 Under 40 finalist by the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, is a 2002 graduate of Tupelo High School. After earning his Bachelor of Business Administration, Banking and Finance degree, he graduated from the Southeastern School of Commercial Lending in 2013. Three years later, he finished Summa Cum Laude from the Barret Graduate of School of Banking at Christian Brothers University.

Jon Milstead

Jon Milstead, Board Member

Jon Milstead, a member of the Tupelo community since 2007, is currently the Vice President of Planning and Property for the Community Development Foundation (CDF).Milstead, a member of the Tupelo community since 2007, is currently the Vice President of Planning and Property for the Community Development Foundation (CDF).
A deacon at First Baptist Church of Tupelo and past president of the Tupelo Football Booster Club, Milstead earned his Landscape Architecture degree from  Mississippi State in 2002. He and his wife, Alicia, a former TPSD teacher who is now the EL Director for the Union County School District, have three children — Mari Claire, s junior at MSU, Jake, a 2023 THS graduate who is committed to play football at Mississippi College, and Molli Kate, a 8th-grader at TMS.
 

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