Tyler ISD Foundation names new executive director

TYLER – Tyler ISD announces the hiring of Suzette Farr as the executive director of the Tyler ISD Foundation. The foundation’s board approved Farr’s appointment Tuesday morning. Farr joins the foundation from Mentoring Alliance, where she recently served as Vice President of Marketing & Community Engagement. Farr previously worked as the East Texas corporate marketing director for the American Heart Association and as the marketing and business development director at Cooperative Teachers Credit Union. She is also a former TISD Foundation Board member, serving from 2014-2018. Farr will officially begin her new duties September 7. The foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides grant funds to teachers for projects and programs that are not funded, or are underfunded, by the District’s operating budget.