Paris, Tenn–The Paris-Henry County Ministerial Alliance will host the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Rally at Mt. Zion Baptist Church the evening of January 15. This year’s recipient of the annual Drum Major for Justice Award will be Dr. Tiffany Nicole McCutcheon.
A Paris native, Dr. McCutcheon is the coordinator of student services at the Tennessee College of Applied Technology. She joined TCAT after a 10-year stint at Bethel University in McKenzie where she served in the Financial Aid Department. She also is on the Henry County Medical Center Board of Trustees.
She went to Bethel after working for the Tennessee Career Center in Paris from 2006-2011. Prior to working at the Tennessee Career Center, McCutcheon worked at the Mid-South Credit Bureau in Paris from 2003-06.
Dr. McCutcheon graduated from Murray State University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science in Business. She earned her Master of Business Administration from Bethel in 2009 before earning her Doctor of Business Administration with an emphasis in Social Impact Management from Walden University in Minneapolis, MN in 2019.
The Award will be given at the conclusion of Monday’s program, which starts at 6 p.m. at Mt. Zion, 401 Irvine St., Paris.
Keynote Speaker will be Rev. Lawrence A. Ragland, Senior Pastor of the High Place Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church of Hickman, Kentucky. Rev. Ragland was a former Paris minister.
This year theme will be : “ Equipping a New Generation for the Old Struggle of Equality”. There will be various local Choirs on hand to perform. Also there will be a community choir led by local musician Jorez Tolver, all interested choir members 8 yrs old and up are asked to practice at Mt. Zion on Sunday January 14. 2024 at 5 pm.
Program organizer Rev. Andre Richardson said, “All are asked to come and help celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the fight for Civil Rights.”