Headmaster

Hugh Harris Bio

Mr. Harris grew up in Waco, TX and Gainesville, FL and received his degree in 1978 from Baylor University in Accounting and worked as an accountant in the insurance industry as a Treasure/Vice President of Finance. The Harris’ adopted two children, one of mixed racial decent, a son and a daughter from India. Caleb and Rachel are 25 and 20 and are working and in college.

Mr. Harris began his own consulting firm, Harris Systems Design in 1985, and began advising and consulting insurance companies in the area of accounting and computer systems for the next eight years and moved his family in to an inner city Christian ministry to the poor with his two friends from college days, starting a school, church, and youth ministries. Mission exposure trips to Mexico, Haiti, India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan radically changed his world view perspective.

In 1990 a friend from Waco that had moved to Nashville called to offer a position in his new company, The Idea Agency, to help develop life affirming film, video, and music projects. In 1991 the Harris’ made a difficult but confident decision to move to Tennessee to help with the new company. After nine years and a fulfilling venture in the film and marketing industry Mr. Harris joined his wife and took and position as the principal of a small local Christian school in Franklin. Based on years of youth volunteer and business administration experience, Mr. Harris sensed the compilation of many skill sets to move in to the education industry.

In 2004 Mr. and Mrs. Harris, along with 20 families, began Franklin Christian Academy and he serves as the Headmaster of the school and President of the Board of Trustees. He serves as the President of the Middle Tennessee Athletic Conference and sits on the Board of the National Christian Sports Conference. Mr. Harris received a Masters of Education in Administration degree this past spring and is committed to seeing students grow in the grace of Christ through knowledge, understanding and wisdom.