Tommie Lindsey (born September 28, 1951

Oakland, California Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the ...

) is a

Forensics Forensic science, also known as criminalistics, is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainly—on the criminal side—during criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and crimin ...

coach, at

James Logan High School James Logan High School (also known as JLHS or Logan) is a public high school located in Union City, California. It is part of the New Haven Unified School District in the San Francisco Bay Area. Awards In 1994 and 1998, Logan was recognized as ...

Life

He graduated

valedictorian Valedictorian is an academic title for the highest-performing student of a graduating class of an academic institution. The valedictorian is commonly determined by a numerical formula, generally an academic institution's grade point average (GPA) ...

from the

University of San Francisco The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private Jesuit university in San Francisco, California. The university's main campus is located on a setting between the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park. The main campus is nicknamed "The Hil ...

in Communication Arts and Social Science. He would later go on to receive an honorary PhD from the University of San Francisco for "Visionary Leadership". 40 percent of students at Logan High School go to college: 90 percent of his forensics students do.

Family

Tommie Lindsey has two children, a daughter and a son.

Awards

* 1994 California Teacher of the Year * 2000 "National Forensics Coach of the Year" * 2003 Oprah Winfrey Angel Award * 2004

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

* 2012 Bronx Achievement Award * 2015 Carlston Family Foundation Award

Works

* ''It Doesn't Take A Genius: Five Truths to Inspire Success in Every Student.'' Authors Randall McCutcheon, Tommie Lindsey, McGraw-Hill, 2006,

References

External links

"Accidental Hero"

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