This (2024-2025) is Suzanne Rice's 13th year at Whitesburg Elementary and her 20th year in Carroll County as a Special Ed. teacher. She began college at Augusta State University in Augusta, GA and graduated from Jacksonville State University in Alabama with a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education. Ms. Rice later graduated from University of West Georgia with a Master's degree in Special Education. This is her 21st year teaching full time, and she also substituted for over two years. Between teaching and substituting, Ms. Rice has taught every grade from pre-k through eighth grade.

Ms. Rice loves history, especially the medieval and Victorian periods, castles, and reading biographies. She enjoys gardening, learning about nutrition, jigsaw puzzles, crafts including crocheting and pottery, and collecting ceramic and sand castles. She's visited three castles in England--Berkhamsted Castle, Windsor Castle, and the Tower of London, and stood on the Prime Meridian with one foot in the western and one in the eastern hemisphere!