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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