Board Calendar

Althea Greene

District 2

Bishop Althea E. Greene is the Vice Chair of the Shelby County Board of Education, and the Co-Chair of the Academic Performance Committee. She is the daughter of Mae Cohens and the late Mr. Henry Cohens Jr. of Memphis, Tennessee. She is the mother of Eumecca Long and LaKesa Greene and grandmother to X’Zavier and Jase.

Bishop Greene was educated in the Memphis City Schools System, received her Bachelor of Science at LeMoyne Owen College, and earned her Masters of Art Degree from Tusculum College. After graduating, she responded to God’s call and began to preach the Gospel in 1987 at Vollentine M.B. Church, where the late Rev. W.M. Fields Jr. licensed her. Bishop Greene continued her studies and graduated from Tennessee School of Religion with a Bachelors of Theology and a Masters of Theological Studies. In addition, she also received a Doctorate in Theology. She retired from Shelby County Schools after thirty- eight years of service. Presently, she is the operator of Greene’s Grill and Three Generations Catering. She has also served as an on-call Chaplain at The Regional Medical Center and William Bowl Hospitals.

Bishop Greene took a leap of faith in November 2002 and responded, once again, to God’s powerful call. She organized Real Life Ministries began services on January 5, 2003. Real Life Ministries just celebrated its 18th anniversary and has ten active ministries.

Bishop Greene has received numerous awards that include the Award of Excellence from WMCTV-5 and MATCU. She was named Christian Educator of the Millennium sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Beta Epsilon Omega Chapter. In addition, Bishop-Designate Greene received the Crystal Apple Teacher Award from WMC-TV.

Bishop Greene is also a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated, and serves on the Spiritual Leadership Team for the Shelby County Chapter. Other memberships include: NAACP, SCLC, and Stand for Children.

Pastor Greene is the first Memphis born, African American female consecrated as a Bishop. She was consecrated by Bishop Andre T. Beatty, and the executive Council of Kingdom Culture Assembly of Churches and Ministries. She has a dual membership at the New Friendship MB Church and at Christ Missionary Baptist Church. She is under the dynamic leadership of Pastors Paul, Co-Pastor Debra Reed and Dr. Gina M. Stewart. Her passions include: teaching, preaching, reading, traveling, shopping, and grilling. Bishop loves the Lord, and gives God the Glory in her Pastoral work.

Bishop Greene was appointed to serve District 2 on the Shelby County School Board of Education in 2019, and was recently elected by her constituents in 2020.

Stephanie Love has lived and been active in North Memphis, Millington and unincorporated areas of Shelby County all of her life. Stephanie Love attended Millington Central High, studied Psychology at The University of Memphis and later became a licensed cosmetologist.

Ms. Love's advocacy began as a parent volunteer in August 2011 at Delano Head Start where she noticed the unacceptable parking accommodations. This motivated her to begin directing traffic to ensure the safety of the children and parents and was able to effectively advocate for an improved parking lot. Because of her passion and willingness to help, Stephanie was elected to serve on the Shelby County Head-start Policy Council where she later became Vice-Chair.

Stephanie Love also served as Vice President of the Frayser Neighborhood Council- a community group that was born out of President Obama’s Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative in 2013. Stephanie was elected to the Frayser Neighborhood Council as a resident on May 4, 2013, and was later selected as Vice President by the group. The Frayser Neighborhood Council has had success in helping to improve the quality of life in Frayser. Some of those successes include effectively advocating Memphis City Council for improvements to Denver Park- a once gang-ridden park taken back by neighbors, getting approval from Memphis City Council for new sidewalks in front of Corning Elementary, stopping a new trailer park development, developed Frayser 2020- a plan to improve quality of life in Frayser and planning of the Frayser Town Center and just recently advocating with fellow Memphians to prevent a landfill from expanding next to an elementary school, and other urban neighborhoods in Shelby County.

Stephanie Love was elected to the Shelby County School Board in 2014 and later re-elected in August of 2016. Stephanie Love currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Community Outreach and Engagement Committee.

As a board member and parent of 3 school-aged children, she knows and understands the challenges parents and children face as it relates to the constant changes in education. Stephanie Love believes when parents, school employees, district officials and all elected governing bodies work together more can be accomplished.

Sheleah Harris

District 5

With more than 10 years of experience, Sheleah Harris has a professional background in secondary education, local government affairs, community engagement, and marketing. Fueled by her strong desire to restructure broken images of youth in our society, she has consistently aligned herself with opportunities to implement strategies for academic, social, and economic success for others. Sheleah is driven to improve “Equity and Access for ALL students” in Shelby County. She is a servant leader who has been relentless in her pursuit to create environments that cultivate an attitude of excellence within communities and neighborhoods throughout Shelby County. She is the founder and executive director of Living Grace, Inc. a non-profit organization that advocates and serves youth identified as homeless in Memphis. In addition, Sheleah also works as a manager of State and Local Government Affairs for a Fortune 500 company. In her role, she listens, learns and leads in the charge for innovation by collaborating with community stakeholders and legislatures to drive equity and access throughout the city.

Formerly, Sheleah also served as a high school teacher for Shelby County Schools and Bartlett City Schools. Sheleah is a proud product of Shelby County’s District 5 and a current resident and graduate of Cordova High School. She earned her B.S. in Marketing Management from The University of Memphis, M.S. in Education from Freed-Hardeman University, and certification in K-12 Education for the state of Tennessee.

She enjoys being active with her church, Life Church of Memphis; spending time with her family and friends; and spoiling her Hound Dog, Andy.

Sheleah Harris

District 5

With more than 10 years of experience, Sheleah Harris has a professional background in secondary education, local government affairs, community engagement, and marketing. Fueled by her strong desire to restructure broken images of youth in our society, she has consistently aligned herself with opportunities to implement strategies for academic, social, and economic success for others. Sheleah is driven to improve “Equity and Access for ALL students” in Shelby County. She is a servant leader who has been relentless in her pursuit to create environments that cultivate an attitude of excellence within communities and neighborhoods throughout Shelby County. She is the founder and executive director of Living Grace, Inc. a non-profit organization that advocates and serves youth identified as homeless in Memphis. In addition, Sheleah also works as a manager of State and Local Government Affairs for a Fortune 500 company. In her role, she listens, learns and leads in the charge for innovation by collaborating with community stakeholders and legislatures to drive equity and access throughout the city.

Formerly, Sheleah also served as a high school teacher for Shelby County Schools and Bartlett City Schools. Sheleah is a proud product of Shelby County’s District 5 and a current resident and graduate of Cordova High School. She earned her B.S. in Marketing Management from The University of Memphis, M.S. in Education from Freed-Hardeman University, and certification in K-12 Education for the state of Tennessee.

She enjoys being active with her church, Life Church of Memphis; spending time with her family and friends; and spoiling her Hound Dog, Andy.

Amber Garcia

District 8

Amber Huett-Garcia serves as the School Board representative for district 8. She began her career as a teacher at Ross Elementary. After teaching, she spent more than seven years at Teach for America, with responsibilities ranging from large-scale operations for a teacher training program, to corporate and foundation fundraising. From there, Huett-Garcia served in Shelby County’s Office of Education as a policy advisor before working as a senior director of non-academic support strategy for one million K-12 students at the Tennessee Department of Education. She also concentrated on state health, policy, and budget roles, including managing more than $13 billion in K-12 funds for former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn.

Huett-Garcia currently serves as the Director of Business Development at Lemonada Media, one of the fastest-growing podcast companies in the country, with 26 shows and growing. She’s passionate about obesity care as an active volunteer and emeritus member of the National Board for the Obesity Action Coalition (OAC). She served nine years, including two years as chair, for over 75,000 members. She is a founding member of the Global Obesity Patient Alliance (GOPA), where she represents the United States. She is a 2018 recipient of Medtronic’s Bakken Invitation, an award given to individuals who’ve used their “extra life” to advocate.

Huett-Garcia enjoys traveling, cooking, and exercising when she’s not working or volunteering. She lives in East Memphis with her husband, Matt, and their daughter, Parker, an elementary student at Memphis-Shelby County Schools.

Kevin D. Woods

District 4

Kevin Woods is the Memphis market president for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, which serves more than 3.4 million members in the state and across the country.

In this role, Woods builds and supports key relationships with west Tennessee businesses. He also serves as a vital link between the Memphis business community and BlueCross sales and service teams.

Before joining BlueCross, he was executive director of Memphis’ Workforce Investment Network, which assists city and county organizations with recruiting new companies to Memphis and improving employment opportunities for area residents. Prior to that, he was director of career development and education services with New Horizons Computer Training Center in Memphis.

He earned a Master of Science in business administration and Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from the University of Memphis. He is a 2014 graduate of Leadership Memphis Executive Class, a New Memphis Fellow, as well as alum of the 2017-2018 class of Leadership Tennessee (Class V). He currently serves on the Leadership Tennessee Advisory Council.

Woods also serves on numerous boards.

• Shelby County School Board
• Memphis River Parks
• Shelby Farms Conservancy
• The Salvation Army
• United Way of the Mid-South
• Neighborhood Preservation, Inc. (NPI)
• TN Achieves Advisory Board