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My Qualifications for wanting to represent the 9th district
Dr. Willie W. Herenton is a native
of Memphis, Tennessee, and a product of the public school system,
where he served as superintendent of schools. A graduate of LeMoyne
College and Memphis State University, he acquired his Ph.D. degree
from Southern Illinois University.
As superintendent of the Memphis City
School system, he was responsible for the overall management of
human and fiscal resources in the nation’s twelfth largest
school district. He managed a force of 12,000 employees and administered
budget totaling $327,000,000.
His professional experiences include,
but are not limited to, classroom teacher, principal, instructor
at Southern Illinois University and deputy superintendent of the
Memphis City School system. In 1973, he was selected as one of the
ten minority school administrators, nationwide, to participate in
the Rockefeller Foundation’s Superintendency Training Program.
As a Rockefeller Fellow, he served internships in the offices of
the superintendent of Baltimore public Schools and the District
of Columbia public schools.
Additional professional activities
include serving as adjunct professor at Memphis State University
and visiting professor at Kansas State University in the areas of
education, administration, curriculum and instruction. He has received
numerous awards for outstanding service in education, including
an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Rhodes College and an honorary
Doctor of Humanities degree from Christian Brothers College. LeMoyne-Owen
College presented him with the Alumnus of the Year award in 1976.
He was selected in 1980, 1984 and 1987 as one of the Top 100 School
Executives in the United States and Canada by Executive Educator,
a professional journal. He was recipient of the 1986 Humanitarian
of the Year award presented by the Memphis Chapter of the National
Conference of Christians and Jews. Greater Memphis State, Incorporated
selected Dr. Herenton for the 1987 Educator of the Year award. The
Distinguished Alumni award from Memphis State University was presented
to Dr. Herenton in 1989. The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished
Americans Incorporated selected Dr. Herenton as one of the ten national
recipients of the 1988 Horatio Alger award. American City &
County Magazine named him the 2002 Municipal Leader of the Year.
In 1992 he was elected the Mayor of Memphis for five consecutive
terms. He is a past member of the American Association of School
Administrators and the American Management Association. He has served
on the national board of directors of the Urban League, Junior Achievement
and the national executive board of the National Conference of Christian
and Jews. Dr. Herenton has served on several corporate boards including
The Promus Companies Incorporated, and First Tennessee National
Corporation. He has devoted time to many civic and service organizations
such as the March of Dimes, the United Way, the Rotary Club, the
Boy Scouts and the Economic Club of Memphis.
Email:
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