A product of Decatur City Schools, a graduate of Austin High School.  She is married to Rance Sutherlin and has two daughters, Summer and Elicia. She also has a fur-baby named Leo.  Leo is a black-and-white Goldendoodle who is full of energy!! Kendria has been with Decatur City Schools since 2007, well, 1985 if you count when she started kindergarten. She taught seventh-grade math at Brookhaven Middle, sixth and seventh-grade math at Cedar Ridge, and was a virtual math teacher for Career Academy. She obtained her Masters in School Counseling from the University of West Alabama.  Kendria has been a school counselor at Austin Middle School since 2019. 

Kendria’s spare time is spent taking family trips, watching her oldest run track for the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and watching her youngest play soccer for Austin and Decatur Soccer DPD.  She also loves cooking for her family, taking long naps, watching HGTV, Food Network, and a good series on Netflix.