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 a lifelong resident of Shelby County and a graduate of the University of Memphis. She has worked for several local publications and covers the suburbs for The Daily Memphian.
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