Brenda Rickett received a B.S. and M.A. degree in Elementary Education and an Ed.D.in Educational Leadership all from the University of Alabama.  Her work experience includes a total of eight years of teaching grades 1, 4 and 5, three and a half years as anassistant principal, and is in her tenth year as principal of a K-5 school. Currently, she serves as Vice-President of the Alabama Association of Elementary Administrators(AAESA). Other accomplishments include District III Nominee for Alabama Distinguished Principal, participant in Leadership Tuscaloosa, member of Alabama State Superintendent’s Principals’Advisory Committee, position on the Council for Leaders of Alabama Schools (CLAS) Board of Directors, and presenter for various state and regional workshops.