Board of Trustees
Members of the Tupelo Public School District Board of Trustees are appointed by the mayor of Tupelo and approved by the Tupelo City Council.
Board of Trustees with Superintendent Dr. Rob Picou
Amy Tate, President
A member of the Tupelo community since 2005, Amy Tate currently serves as Regional Vice President 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 senior at Mississippi State, and Walker, a senior at Tupelo High School.
Paul Mize III, Secretary
Paul Mize, III is the Tupelo City President for BankPlus. He is married to Bonnie, and have two sons, Henry (10) and William (8). 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 from Ole Miss, 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.
Sherry Davis, Board Member
Mrs. Davis is a life-long resident of Tupelo. A graduate of Tupelo High, she 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 31 years of teaching experience.
Jon Milstead, Vice-President
Jon Milstead, a member of the Tupelo community since 2007 and the newest board member, 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 a deacon at First Baptist Church of Tupelo and past president of the Tupelo Football Booster Club. He 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, a senior at MSU, Jake, a 2023 THS graduate who is now playing football at Mississippi College, and Molli Kate, a 9th-grader at THS.
Hope Huey, Board Member