Top Educator to Keynote the 10th Annual Phoenix Challenge Awards Banquet

Dr. Atkinson is the first woman and the 23rd person elected to the office of superintendent in 154 years. She has authored two books, “Help With Computers” and “Exploring Business and Computer Careers,” and has addressed education and business groups in 43 states.

Before her election, she was chief consultant and director in the areas of business education, and career and technical education at the Department of Public Instruction during much of the past 30 years. Prior to that she was a business teacher at Myers Park High School in Charlotte.