Alisha Hinton
Alisha Hinton has been appointed principal of Sequoyah Elementary School effective July 2017. Hinton returns to Knox County Schools and to Sequoyah Elementary, where she served for three years as the school’s principal until taking an administrative position in 2015 with Grace Christian Academy.
Hinton joined Knox County Schools in 2003 upon graduating from the University of Tennessee. She taught at New Hopewell and Brickey-McCloud elementary schools before serving as assistant principal at A.L. Lotts Elementary School in 2009. She was selected to be part of the inaugural Leadership Academy class in 2011.
Hinton holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in elementary education from UT and an educational specialist degree in administration from Lincoln Memorial University.