Roshanda Lewis, a native of Lower Peachtree, Alabama, completed her bachelor’s degree in elementary education at Alabama State University, her master’s degree in educational administration and an educational specialist degree in instructional leadership from the University of West Alabama. She received National Board Certification in 2008, renewed her certification in 2017 and has a total of 19 years in education. She started her education career teaching fourth grade in Killeen, Texas, and then spent fifteen years in Wilcox County, Alabama, as a teacher, reading coach, assistant principal and principal. She has been an elementary principal in Demopolis,
Alabama, for three years.

Mrs. Lewis is married to Rodney Lewis and has two daughters, Janiecia and Shantavia.