The Paris-Henry County Ministerial Alliance will host the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Rally at Mt. Zion Baptist Church at 5 p.m. January 21. This year’s recipient of the annual Drum Major for Justice Award will be Dr. Tiffany Nicole McCutcheon. The event was rescheduled from January 15 due to the weather.

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.