In March 2005, Dr. Anderson became the first African-American and the first female superintendent in Montgomery County in Christiansburg, Virginia.  Out of 14,000 superintendents in the nation, Dr. Anderson is one of the 5% who are African American female superintendents. After arriving, Dr. Anderson added staff to schools to enable smaller classes, aligned the curriculum with state standards, provided full-time nurses at all elementary schools, and she put initiatives in place to embrace diversity. Montgomery County has now moved from having 11 schools accredited out of 20 to having 18 out of 20 schools accredited.

After graduating from Saint Louis University in elementary education, Tiffany Anderson started her teaching career in St. Louis County.  After teaching in both urban county and suburban county districts, Dr. Anderson began directing an after-school program entitled Closing the Achievement Gap in which low achieving students began to rapidly excel in St. Louis County.  In 1998, Dr. Anderson was recruited as an inner city principal in St. Louis City, where she was the youngest principal in Missouri.  As principal at Clark, a school with 99% poverty in St. Louis City, she demonstrated that students could excel at high levels in a short period of time.  

After receiving her educational doctorate and superintendent’s license in 2003, Rockwood School District, the largest and highest performing district in St. Louis County, recruited Dr. Anderson.  She became the first African American female assistant superintendent there. While overseeing instructional issues, Dr. Anderson also had the role of directing the desegregation program in Rockwood.  By 2005, Rockwood had significant academic gains in all areas for all students and the achievement gap began to close. 

Dr. Anderson is a lifetime member of the NAACP. She has two children -- Whitney and Christopher -- who are members of the youth NAACP.  Her husband, Stan, is an OBGYN physician for Carilion.