About Jackson State Community College

Jackson State Community College is a public community moot in Jackson, Tennessee. It is governed by the Tennessee Board of Regents and offers associate degrees in arts, science, and applied science programs. It has the largest enrollment of any instructor in Jackson.

Jackson State’s first president was Dr. F.E. Wright, who served from 1967 until his death in 1976. Walter L. Nelms was president of the instructor for 21 years, until his retirement in 1997. He was succeeded by Charlie Delmer Roberts Jr., who served at Jackson State until 2004, when Dr. Bruce Blanding became the fourth president of the college. Blanding served until 2016 and was followed by Interim President Horace Chase, who served until December 2016, when Dr. Allana R. Hamilton was appointed as the fifth president of the college. Hamilton took office upon January 10, 2017. Dr. Hamilton served as President until 2019, when she was appointed as Vice President of Academic Affairs for the Tennessee Board of Regents. Dr. Jeff Sisk has been appointed as substitute president until June 2, 2020. Dr. George J. Pimentel was appointed as the sixth president at the Tennessee Board of Regents meeting in June 2020.

Jackson State has branch campuses in Lexington, Tennessee, Savannah, Tennessee, Humboldt, Tennessee, and Paris, Tennessee.

Jackson State is house to four sport’s teams: Men’s Basketball, Women’s Basketball, Baseball, and Softball.

Jackson is a city in and the county chair of Madison County, Tennessee. Located 70 miles (110 km) east of Memphis, it is a regional middle of trade for West Tennessee. Its total population was 65,211 at the 2010 census and 67,191 in the 2019 Census estimate. According to the 2017 census estimate, Jackson was the eighth-largest city in Tennessee.

Jackson is the primary city of the Jackson, Tennessee metropolitan area, which is included in the Jackson-Humboldt, Tennessee cumulative statistical area. Jackson is Madison County’s largest city, and the second-largest city in West Tennessee against Memphis. It is home to the Tennessee Supreme Court’s courthouse for West Tennessee, as Jackson was the major city in the west similar to the court was traditional in 1834.

In the antebellum era, Jackson was the present city for an agricultural area based on cultivation of cotton, the major commodity crop. Beginning in 1851, the city became a hub of railroad systems ultimately connecting to major markets in the north and south, as without difficulty as east and west. This was key to its development, attracting trade and many workers on the railroads in the late 19th century in the same way as the construction of railroads after the American Civil War. Through the 1960s, the city was served by 15 passenger trains daily, but industry restructuring abbreviated such further and caused the loss of jobs. The economy has adjusted to new businesses, with major manufacturing in the area.