Sarah Clemmons

Dr. Sarah Clemmons is the President of Chipola College.

Clemmons previously served as senior vice president of Instruction, and had served as interim president of Chipola since the resignation of former president Dr. Jason Hurst in October 2016. She is the second Chipola alumnus to serve as president.

Clemmons previously served as the chief academic officer for the college with responsibility over all academic and workforce instructional programs. She also had oversight for the college’s accreditation, grants, assessment and academic support programs.

Coming to Chipola in 1979 as an English instructor, Clemmons went on to become chair of the Literature/Language Division, rising through the ranks to eventually become the top academic officer of the college. She helped to start the Academic Center for Excellence, a free tutoring program that won a Florida College System Chancellor’s Best Practice Award and was a finalist for a national Bellwether Award. She was instrumental in establishing bachelor’s degree programs at Chipola beginning in 2003.

A native of Marianna, Clemmons is an alumnus of Marianna High School, Chipola College, University of West Florida, Troy University and Florida State University. She serves on the board of trustees of Jackson Hospital. She is active in the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and was named Citizen of the Year by the group in 2015. She is married to Dr. Tracy Clemmons, an Operations Management Consultant, with the Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities. Their son, Dr. Martin Clemmons, is an internal medicine physician at Archbold Medical Center in Thomasville, Georgia.