Deena Hayes Retains Seat as Board of Education Chair
Bettye Jenkins will again serve as vice chair

Greensboro, N.C. – Deena Hayes will once again serve as chairperson of the Guilford County Board of Education. The District 8 representative has served on the school board since 2002 and was first elected as the board chairperson in the summer of 2018.

Hayes is the managing director of the Racial Equity Institute. She received the 2019 Benjamin Elijah Mays Lifetime Achievement Award from the National School Boards Association’s Council of Urban Boards of Education. The Benjamin Elijah Mays Lifetime Achievement Award is given to an individual who, through service as a local school board member, has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to representing the educational needs of urban schoolchildren.

Bettye Jenkins will return for a second year as vice chairperson. Jenkins, who represents District 7, is a former teacher’s assistant, social worker, social work supervisor and community service coordinator who retired from Guilford County Schools in 2016.

She served as second vice president for the Greensboro branch of the NAACP, committee co-chair for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and a member of the League of Women Voters. Her two children graduated from Dudley High, and she has two grandchildren enrolled in GCS.