Background
Matthews, Sherman Ervin was born on May 4, 1948 in Chattanooga. Son of Sherman J. and Mary K. (Powell) Matthews.
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Sherman Ervin Matthews
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Bachelor in Sociology, Kentucky State University, 1971; postgraduate, U. Tennessee, Chattanooga, 1974-1976.
Career
Emergency substitute teacher,, Chattanooga, 1971; family counselor, Association Day Care Agency, Chattanooga, 1971-1972; drug counselor day program, Community Action Agency, Chattanooga, 1972-1973; juvenile probation officer, Tennessee Department Correction, Chattanooga, 1973-1986; supervisory probation officer III, Tennessee Department Correction, Chattanooga, 1986-1988; manager juvenile probation I, Tennessee Department Correction, Chattanooga, 1988-1989; regional director Southeast region, Tennessee Department Youth Development, Chattanooga, since 1989. Adjunct Professor U. Tennessee, 1978.
Achievements
Membership
Board of directors Operation People United to Save Humanity. Member of advisory board and steering committee People United to Save Humanity-Excel Program, Chattanooga, 1979, now board directors. Member Unity Group, Chattanooga.
Member Chattanooga Public School Board Education District 5, since 1990. Member National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (board directors Chattanooga 1989), Masons (32 degree, master mason), Shriners, Kappa Alpha Psi, Alpha Phi Omega.
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Married Brenda Jones, May 2, 1970. Children: Kimberly Diane, Erika Lannette.
