Dr. Edna Varner is a Chattanooga native and the first in her family to attend college.
Her alma mater is our campus: The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
During her career as an educator in Hamilton County, she was a founding faculty member at the Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences - and later served as principal of The Howard School.
These days, she is senior adviser for leading and learning at the local nonprofit Public Education Forward, formerly known as the Public Education Foundation when we spoke this spring.
