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Lee County School Board Candidate: Kim Lilley



Lilley chooses a different path in education

By GORDON ANDERSON
anderson@sanfordherald.com

SANFORD — As a young woman, Kim Lilley hoped to make a career in music education.

But although she gives a few students piano and voice lessons locally during her spare time, education never became a full-time job for Lilley, who works in quality control at Wyeth Vaccines in Sanford.

Now, with a run for one of the four available seats on the Lee County Board of Education, Lilley is looking to add another aspect to her life as an educator.

“I had always intended to go into music education,” said Lilley, explaining that music was her initial course of study at her native Tennessee’s Tennessee Temple University before she eventually earned an associate’s degree in business. “But its so hard to make a living in that field that I eventually changed my focus.”

Along the way, Lilley met and married her husband Mark, who after several television stations across the south now helps run WBF TV-46 in Sanford. They have four children and have lived in Sanford since 2003.