Skinner to Lead Delta Kappa Gamma in Georgia from 2025-2027
Pictured above: Dr. Lynn Skinner of Newnan, right, accepts the gavel from Marie Boatright, president of the Georgia State Organization, Delta Kappa Gamma.
From Special Reports
Dr. Lynn Skinner, a retired Coweta County educator, is set to lead the Georgia State Organization of Delta Kappa Gamma for the 2025-2027 biennium.
Skinner received the gavel from the current GSO president, Marie Boatright, at the GSO State Convention at the Cherokee Conference Center in Canton on March 29. She will officially assume her duties on July 1.
Delta Kappa Gamma is a professional society for key women educators, founded in 1929. The organization has more than 90,000 members in 18 countries.
At the state convention, Skinner outlined the theme for her biennium – Purpose and Passion. “Teachers with purpose and passion don’t give up. They try something new. They look at the problem from a different angle,” she said.
“Teachers with purpose and passion enable students to excel now, and then to grow up to do great, great things. Teachers with purpose and passion seek to teach every child – without prejudice, seeing in every student a future that is better for women and for all humanity,” she added.
Skinner taught at East Coweta High School from 1992 to 2008, serving as department chair before becoming the Coweta County School System’s mathematics content specialist. She retired in 2018 and then worked from 2019 until March of this year as a school climate specialist at the West Georgia Regional Services Agency in Grantville.
Skinner earned a bachelor of business degree from the University of Georgia in 1981. She holds three degrees from the University of West Georgia – a master’s of education, 1990; an education specialist degree, 1998; and a doctor of education in school improvement, 2012.
Inducted into Delta Kappa Gamma’s Beta Gamma Chapter in 1990, Skinner served as president of that chapter from 2004 to 2008. She is now a member of Mu Chapter where she currently serves as recording secretary and webmaster.
She has served in several leadership positions in the Georgia State Organization. Skinner will complete eight years as state treasurer in June, and she currently also serves as state webmaster and state newsletter editor.
Skinner lives in Newnan with her husband, Winston. They have two grown daughters, Sallie Kight, a math teacher at Newnan High School and Mu Chapter member, and Jane Sreeram – and four grandchildren.
The Skinners are active members at Allen-Lee Memorial United Methodist Church in Lone Oak.
