Previous winners Other UTC graduates have been in the running for the Ike Zeringue Engineer of the Year Award Engineer of the Year; two have won. For the 2019 award, three graduates were in the running: Nick McClung, bachelor’s in civil engineering in 2008. Tamatha Womack, bachelor’s in engineering in 1998; master in electrical and electronics engineering in 2008. Marjorie Parsons, bachelor’s in electrical engineering in 1999. She…
Billionaire Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, tweeted out praise for Le Andrea Ware, a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the 2019-2020 state Principal of the Year. “Dr. Le Andrea Ware is one of the most energetic school leaders I’ve ever met. Her positivity is infectious,” Gates tweeted. “It’s no wonder she was recently named the Tennessee principal of the year.” His full story on Ware…
LeAndrea Ware, a 1995 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga alumna and principal at Howard High School in Chattanooga, has been named Tennessee Principal of the Year.
Colleen Ryan, who graduated from UTC in 2015, had been selected as Toyota Family Teacher of the Year for 2019, an award open to teachers across the country.
