Published 5:29 pm Wednesday, September 9, 2026 MOULTRIE — Clovis King will be stepping onto the Colquitt County School Board in January. She was elected to fill the position of School Board Member Trudie Hill, who has served for 22 years on the Board of Education. Recently, King was profiled in “Know,” a publication put out by the Georgia Association of Educators. King said Sterling Brantley, who was the president of the Colquitt County Association of Educators, called the state organization about her election to the school board. A writer from the publication contacted her for an interview, she said. “I told her that I’m a retired teacher. I wanted to be on the board ever since I did. I retired in 2020. But because Mrs. Trudie was still on the board, I could not run against Mrs. Trudie because I love her and I respect her so much. And she’s always been like a mentor to me,” King said. She said when Hill did not want to serve anymore, it opened it up for her to go ahead and qualify. “She has always been … anytime I went to her for anything, she’s always been, you know, she’s always responded,” she said. “Even if I didn’t like what she said or I wasn’t happy with the result, she always took what I said, went to whomever she needed to and got back with me.” She added, that’s what she got back from Hill and learned from her. King said she and the writer also talked about the fact that when she was teaching, she didn’t want to go into administration because she wanted to be with…
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