Lisa Mitchell graduated from Fitzgerald High School in 1987 with honors. She graduated from MidAmerica Nazarene University in 1991, where she received the Student Teaching With Distinction award. She began teaching Kindergarten for the Ben Hill County School system in 1991. She completed her master's degree in elementary reading and literacy from Walden University in 2007. Mrs. Mitchell has been teaching in the Ben Hill County school system for the past 32 years. She taught Kindergarten at Ben Hill Primary for 30 years. She is currently teaching Foundations of Writing at Ben Hill Middle School.

     Mrs. Mitchell and her husband, Darryl, have been married for almost 30 years. They have four children and one grandchild. Anna is a teacher at Ben Hill Middle School. Jacob is the worship leader at Leavenworth Church of the Nazarene in Leavenworth, Washington. He and his wife, Andrea, have one daughter, Quinn. Maggie is an esthetician at Amazing Lash in Phoenix, Arizona. Dalton is working in construction in Oklahoma.