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Carole Lynn Meadows earned a B.S. and a master’s degree in Business Education from the University of Mississippi. She has more than 25 years teaching experience at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. She also worked for five years as an investment broker with JC Bradford, now UBS.
Meadows is co-founder of the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center, the first children’s museum in Mississippi, and serves as chair of the building committee for the forthcoming WINGS Children’s Performing Arts and Education facility at the Center. She was awarded the Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow Award in recognition of her work for children.
Meadows was elected the first woman president of the Ole Miss Alumni Association in 1994 and was a 1999 inductee into the University of Mississippi Alumni Hall of Fame. She was a member of the search committees for vice-chancellor for student affairs, athletic director, and chancellor. She served as Annual Fund Chair for four years and currently serves as Chair, Alumni and Friends of the Inn at Ole Miss Campaign.
Her former community service includes serving as the president of the Gulfport Chapter of the National Association of Junior Auxiliaries, the first woman executive committee member for the Gulfport Chamber of Commerce, PTA president, Co-Chair, American Cancer Tennis Tournament and Chair, Mother’s March, Harrison County March of Dimes.
Meadows currently serves as secretary of the executive committee of the Gulfport Main Street Association, board member of the Gulf Coast Business Council and board member of Mississippi Council on Economic Education.
She and her husband, Joseph R. Meadows, are Sunday school teachers at First Baptist Church of Gulfport. The Lucedale native has made Gulfport her home since 1965. Their son, Joe, Jr., and his wife, Susan, live in Birmingham, Ala. The Lynn Meadows Discovery Center is named in memory of their daughter.
Two granddaughters, Victoria and Meredith (both current students at Ole
Miss), and their mother, Jonelle Meadows, call Gulfport home.
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