Dr. Adrienne Battle is interim director of Metro Nashville Public Schools. She has spent almost her entire career at MNPS, previously serving as a math, reading and language arts teacher; an assistant principal, academic principal and executive principal; a turnaround coach for principals of the district’s priority schools; and as a community superintendent overseeing all schools in the Southeast quadrant of Nashville and Davidson County and high schools across the district. A Nashville native, Dr. Battle is a graduate of Overton High School, Missouri State University and Tennessee State University, where she earned her doctorate in Educational Administration and Supervision.