After more than 40 years as an educator, Carolyn Lott Adams submitted her resignation at last week’s Lamar County School District Board of Trustees meeting in Purvis.
Adams cited personal reasons for leaving the position, with her resignation becoming effective July 31.
Anyone interested in being appointed to the position from District B who has a high school diploma or its equivalent can send a resume to Lynn Davis at lynn.davis@lamark12.org or to P.O. Box 609, Purvis, MS 39475. The deadline for accepting resumes is Monday, Aug. 6.
A special election will be held on Nov. 6 – the date of the General Election – to fill the vacant District B seat, Lamar County Circuit Clerk Martin Hankins said.
Adams has been a member of the Lamar County School Board since her election in 2016. However, she grew up in education. Her father, Rankin Clinton, was the Oak Grove superintendent from 1945-59.
"In 1950, I lived in the teacher's home," Adams said during an earlier interview. "My mother sent me running barefoot to tell them the school was on fire."
Adams was inducted in the Pearl River Community College Hall of Fame in 2017.
Adams attended Pearl River in 1958-59. She retired from the Lamar County School District after almost 40 years as a teacher and administrator. PRCC began the Lifetime Achievement Hall of Fame in 2012 with a secondary purpose of linking them to the PRCC Honors Institute.
Hankins said a special election will be held on the same day as the General Election, Nov. 6.
“Qualifying for the School Board seat will be from Aug. 8-Sept. 7,” he said. “Candidates need to be aware that the district lines have changed since Lumberton was consolidated into the Lamar County schools.”
Lumberton and Lamar County school districts completed their voluntary consolidation earlier this year and the district lines were redrawn to include all five high schools into the Lamar County School District. The consolidation took effect on July 1.
District B includes Oak Grove High School on the northern edge and runs along the eastern border of Lamar County until just north of Purvis High School.
