{"county":"shelby","description":"Members of the Germantown Municipal Schools school board govern the Germantown Municipal 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.\n\n**Compensation:** stipend set locally; state law requires a minimum of $4/day ([T.C.A. \u00a7 49-2-202](https://law.justia.com/codes/tennessee/title-49/chapter-2/part-2/section-49-2-202/)).","district":"Germantown","districtgroup":"municipality","id":156,"key":"germantown_school_board_position_2","lastchangeby":null,"name":"Daniel Chatham","next_election":"2018-11-08","notes":"166","officegroup":"germantown_school_board","partisan":0,"party":"","qualities":"- Policy judgment on a small suburban district within Shelby County \u2014 Arlington, Bartlett, Collierville, Germantown, Lakeland, or Millington \u2014 typically several thousand students across a single elementary/middle/high feeder pattern.\n- Budget literacy for both operating and capital budgets, in coordination with the suburban municipality (which provides matching local funds in some configurations).\n- Ability to hire, evaluate, and when necessary replace the superintendent.\n- Constituent relations with parents, teachers, and community members across an actively engaged small district.\n- Willingness to complete the state-required seven hours of annual training through the Tennessee School Boards Association School Board Academy.","quantity":1,"source":null,"state":"TN","term_end":"2026-11-01","term_start":"2022-11-01","term_years":4,"terms":[{"current":1,"description":"","electiondate":"2022-11-01","name":"Daniel Chatham","person":{"biography":"Daniel was born in Kentucky, though his parents had the good sense to raise him in West Tennessee.\nThe son of a pastor and a middle school PE teacher, Daniel grew up in Dyersburg before exploring East Tennessee while attending the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He moved to Memphis to study medicine, then completed his pediatrics residency at LeBonheur Children\u2019s Hospital.\nHe\u2019s been a pediatrician at Pediatrics East for the last 8 years.\nDaniel and his wife, Allie, settled in Germantown in 2015 and stay busy raising three wild little boys and a golden retriever named Jedi. Daniel and his family attend Harvest Church, and he\u2019s a board member of Agape Child and Family Services.","firstname":"Daniel","lastname":"Chatham","token":"X1aXTc7VWh"},"term_end":"2026-11-01","term_start":"2022-11-01"}],"title":"Germantown School Board Position 2","type":"legislative","url":null,"whenchanged":"2026-04-25 19:49:19"}