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Dr. Bobby G. Webb
superintendent@scsk12.org

In January of 2002 the Shelby County Schools Board of Education selected Dr. Bobby Webb as the 22nd Superintendent of Shelby County Schools. The Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents named Dr. Webb as Tennessee's Superintendent of the Year in 1996 and 2001. He is the only Superintendent in Tennessee to have received this honor twice. In 2003 he was named by the Tennessee PTA as the state's "Outstanding Superintendent."

Dr. Webb's career in education began in 1974 as an instrumental music teacher with Humboldt City Schools. After teaching three years in Humboldt he returned to Lauderdale County where he was born and raised. Over the next eleven years he served as a teacher and then as a high school administrator for the Lauderdale County School system. Prior to coming to Shelby County, Dr. Webb has spent the last 14 years as the Superintendent of Lauderdale County Schools.

Dr. Webb obtained two degrees from the University of Tennessee at Martin. In 1970 he graduated with a B.S. degree in Music Education, and in 1979 obtained his M. S. in Educational Administration and Supervision. Dr. Webb received his Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Memphis in 1997. Dr. Webb has held many professional leadership positions. Among these are:

  • President of the Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents
  • Board of Directors for the Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents
  • National Advisory Board for the American Association of School Administrators
  • Member of the University of Memphis School Administrator Internship Advisory Council
  • State Board of Education High School Gateway and End of Course Exam Task Force
  • Member of the Harvard University National Exemplary Superintendents Congress