Tennessee First Lady Maria Lee
Tennessee First Lady Maria Lee’s initiative, Tennessee Serves, provides new backpacks to every student in Tennessee’s distressed counties.
Since 2021, Tennessee Serves has provided more than 32,443 new backpacks to students across Tennessee. This year, 12,711 students in distressed counties received a backpack from the First Lady’s initiative.
Students in Bledsoe and Grundy counties were 2 of the 10 counties that received brand-new backpacks from Tennessee Serves.
First Lady Lee and the Tennessee Serves team joined volunteers and school staff in the state to help distribute backpacks and school supplies to families and students.
