I serve as the Director of Admissions here at Prep because it presents a new challenge every day. Since the first week I joined the staff here, I knew I was in the right place because everyone I know here is doing their best to fulfill the mission of this wonderful school. I have been in the business of helping students find their “educational way” for most of the 20 years since I graduated from Mississippi State the first time. The most fun job I ever had was as an Admission Counselor for MSU because it was like living at college without having to go to class. Being blessed to simply share my positive experience with others coming behind me has been at the core of my existence ever since. It’s a little like being an evangelist if you look at it in just the right light. After earning my Masters degree in Counseling and Student Personnel, I served as the Director of Student Life at State until I married and moved reluctantly to Jackson.

I stay busy after school hours(whatever that means) with the Junior League and a small but intense Bible Study group which meets in our home. I enjoy cooking when I have the time to entertain, and after moving to “the country” just this fall, I look forward to really messing up my new kitchen on a regular basis.

My husband, Jimmy, owns and operates Chimneyville Smokehouse Restaurant and Catering and also works very part-time for the Hinds County Sheriff’s Department. For a very patient man who really can’t cook and doesn’t enjoy eating – it’s an odd mix of vocational choices – but it works for us. I worked with him for 7 years in the catering and event planning business and starting up Reservoir Pointe until I decided my back and my sunny disposition would be valuable to me in my old age – and went back to working in education at Hinds Community College. That’s where I was when a friend connected me with Prep.

Jimmy and I have one old senile dog, one growing puppy and a new kitten and probably lots of other animal life I am reluctant to encounter just yet out in our “woods.” If I go missing one day, the first place to look would be on my screened porch which overlooks the pond and is the most serene place to be most mornings. I’ll be sitting there with a good cup of coffee and my Bible, just talking to God as if He were sitting right there in the other rocker.