Gary Meredith graduated from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Later, he earned a Master of Arts in Secondary Education and an advanced degree in Educational Leadership. Gary's career, as an educator, spanned thirty-five years and included a stop on each rung of the educational ladder. As a resident of Bee Spring, Kentucky, his climb began as a paraprofessional at the high school level. He then became a middle school and high school classroom teacher and basketball coach for nine years before accepting a position as assistant principal and athletic director. He served as an assistant principal and/or athletic director for five years before accepting his first assignment as principal. After serving fourteen years as a principal at the elementary and high school levels in rural Kentucky, he retired from the Kentucky Education System. Gary then moved from the second smallest public school system in Kentucky to the fourth largest in the United States to serve seven years as the Executive Director for Doctors Charter School of Miami Shores, Florida. Doctors Charter School is a combination middle/high school in the Miami-Dade County Public School System and achieved both state and national accolades during Gary's tenure. The school was recognized as one of the highest achieving public schools in the United States by Newsweek Magazine, US News & World Report, and The Washington Post. The school continued to receive the highest state rating of "A" awarded each year by the Florida Department of Education. Also, the school was named a Gold Seal of Excellence school by the Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools. Following his retirement from Doctors Charter School, he has continued his passion for assisting others in education by providing specialized educational consulting services to public, private, and charter schools. Gary and his wife, Rhonda, have one son, Brett. Brett and his wife, Heather, just celebrated the newest addition to the family, Jackson Bley.