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Contest for Collierville School Board Position 2

Municipality Collierville
general - Non-partisan - Collierville School Board Position 2

About this office

Members of the Collierville Schools school board govern the Collierville Schools municipal school district, separate from Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Five members are elected to staggered four-year terms. The board hires and evaluates the superintendent, adopts district policies, approves the budget, sets district goals, and oversees compliance with federal and state education law. Members are required to complete seven hours of training annually through the Tennessee School Boards Association School Board Academy.

Compensation: stipend set locally; state law requires a minimum of $4/day (T.C.A. Β§ 49-2-202).

Term length: 4 years.

This role calls for

  • Policy judgment on a small suburban district within Shelby County β€” Arlington, Bartlett, Collierville, Germantown, Lakeland, or Millington β€” typically several thousand students across a single elementary/middle/high feeder pattern.
  • Budget literacy for both operating and capital budgets, in coordination with the suburban municipality (which provides matching local funds in some configurations).
  • Ability to hire, evaluate, and when necessary replace the superintendent.
  • Constituent relations with parents, teachers, and community members across an actively engaged small district.
  • Willingness to complete the state-required seven hours of annual training through the Tennessee School Boards Association School Board Academy.

Derived from the office's statutory duties and operational reality. Candidate summaries below map each candidate's documented experience to these requirements.

Campaigns

Jason Morrison

Jason Morrison
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Jason Morrison is Vice President of Clinical Research Informatics at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, a role held since December 2021. Two decades of senior IT and research-systems leadership precede this β€” St. Jude (2019–present), University of Washington Medical Center (2017–2019), and Nationwide Children's Hospital (2004–2017) β€” including department-level staff and budget management. He holds a JD, a DBA, an MHA, and an MBA. Bio does not indicate prior elected experience or direct K-12 board service.
Rachel Davis

Rachel Davis
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Rachel Davis is Director of Community Relations at Life Choices of Memphis, a nonprofit the Daily Memphian describes as encouraging women to choose adoption over abortion. She has held the role for five years with approximately ten years of prior volunteer involvement β€” fifteen years total in community-facing nonprofit work. She moved to Collierville so her daughter could remain in the district. Her LinkedIn profile lists only the Life Choices role and shows no education entries. Bio does not indicate prior elected experience or board service.
Michael Ebbs

Michael Ebbs
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Mike Ebbs is the incumbent, elected to Collierville School Board Position 2 in November 2024. He is a Republican and Collierville resident. As a sitting board member he has roughly 18 months of in-role experience with operating budget review, district policy decisions, and superintendent oversight. Bio does not indicate his pre-board professional background or civic involvement outside the school board.
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