Girls Leadership Academy
Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy’s 2017 governance board:Executive Committee:Sue Anne Wells, chairwomanMeredith Perry, vice-chairwomanPat Farnsley, treasurerEdna Varner, secretaryGrant LawRickie PierceVirginia Anne SharberAdditional Members:Hazel BellLulu CopelandGordon DavenportTony DoyleyCheryl GodwinAnnie HallGeGe HarrisMartina HarrisDallas JosephElizabeth JessenDonna KillianStacy LightfootKristina MontagueMary Grey MosesMargaret NelsonErskine OglesbyCharley Spencer
The skyrocketing success of Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy was celebrated Wednesday during the charter school’s eighth annual Odyssey Awards Luncheon and fundraiser.
“CGLA is a place where every student is challenged with relentless rigor and relentless pursuits of educational excellence,” said Kelly Alling, who was co-chairperson of the event with her husband, Ted Alling, and longtime school supporter Jo Ann Yates.
Sue Anne Wells launched CGLA in 2009, wanting to provide disadvantaged girls an advantaged education.
The school’s first couple of years were tumultuous, Wells said, and it was nearly closed by the state due to its low academic performance.