Greene County School System Superintendent Dr. Barbara Pulliam Davis received the Joseph E. Hill Superintendent of the Year Award at the 2010 Annual National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE) conference. The Superintendent of the Year Award is bestowed upon current superintendents who have demonstrated a quality of leadership that resulted in significant positive outcomes for students of African descent.

Davis became Superintendent of Greene County Schools in 2008. During her first six months, she worked with the Board of Education to improve community relations, organize and prioritize the ELOST Projects and renovation work and began working with parents and community to get the school system’s Strategic Plan developed.

Her career in education began as a high school teacher in a small school district in Parchment, Michigan. Over the years, she served as a high school principal and central office administrator prior to becoming Associate Superintendent. She has worked as Senior Associate for Education and Non-Profit Programs at the Center for the Creative Learning in Greensboro, North Carolina and Director of School Support Service in the Chicago Public Schools, working with 223 of the lowest performing elementary schools to develop programs to increase student achievement.  

Her career as Superintendent began in 1997, when she was selected to be the Superintendent of the St. Louis Park School District in Minnesota. She left Minnesota in 2004, becoming the first woman ever to become Superintendent of Clayton County Schools in Jonesboro.

She has developed language immersion schools in two school districts as focused magnet and charter schools in her career. Over the years, she has received millions of dollars in grant money for educational programs, including a grant from the Nabisco Foundation and the Sara Lee Corporation, and recently receiving a $2.3 million grant for Greene County Schools. She also was responsible for implementing the first dual language immersion school (charter) in the state of Georgia in 2006.

She believes that every child has a right to the highest quality education that we can provide them, and she works passionately to ensure that students will receive the education they deserve.