School board appointee ready to be ‘loudest advocate’ for Germantown
“These are our kids,” Scotty Hendricks Jr. said. “Let’s pour into them. Let’s find ways we can positively impact them. ... If I see something I feel I can help out with and help bring change, I’m going to say it.” (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Scotty Hendricks Jr. was the final of seven interviews for a vacancy on Germantown’s Board of Education, but he emerged as the top person for the job Monday evening, Jan. 27.
The last can be first.
Hendricks was appointed to Position 2 on the Germantown Municipal School District’s Board of Education during Monday night’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting. He will finish the remaining two years of Dr. Daniel Chatham’s term. Chatham was elected to the board in 2022 but resigned late last year after placing his children in a private Christian school.
Hendricks is the first Black man to serve on an elected board in Germantown. In his application, he said he’d like to seek election in 2026 unless the suburb needed him elsewhere.
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Abigail Warren
Abigail Warren is an award-winning reporter and covers Collierville and Germantown for The Daily Memphian. She was raised in the Memphis suburbs, attended Westminster Academy and studied journalism at the University of Memphis. She has been with The Daily Memphian since 2018.
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