IN DIFFICULT TIMES, WE NEED EXPERIENCED LEADERSHIP
Jimmy Atkins
District 8 Board of Education
About Jimmy Atkins
- September 2020 – appointed by Governor Brian Kemp to the Georgia Professional Standards Commission
- April 2019 – elected to the Georgia School Boards Association Board of Directors
- January 2019 – unanimously elected by the Richmond County Board of Education members to serve a second term as Board President
- Lead the Richmond County Board of Education to hire Superintendent Dr. Kenneth Bradshaw within a month of the previous superintendent giving her resignation
- Assisted with the passage of three different ESPLOST that generated over $500 million to our school system to create better learning facilities for our students and hundreds of jobs for a positive economic impact for Richmond County
- Instrumental in the initiative to ensure each Richmond County student has home internet access
- Serves on the Board of Directors for the Richmond County Board of Health and the Boys and Girls Clubs of the CSRA
- Ordained Southern Baptist Deacon
- Married to his wife Donna for 26 years
- Father of two children, Elisa and Jacob