Marva Gipson

People of Pickens: Marva Gipson

Marva Gipson

By BRIAN HAMILTON, Editor

Mayor Marva Gipson is a native of Aliceville and a graduate R.J. Kirksey High School.  Gipson then attended Tuskegee Institute University and Miles College and began her career at the Pickens County Board of Education as a Teacher’s Aide and later as School Secretary. She was the third African American to be employed at Westinghouse Electricity Corporation, where she served as a shipping clerk/receptionist in Reform, Ala.