Madison Allyn Douglas of Bentonia joined the Holmes Community College family as the administrative assistant for the Student Counseling Center on the Ridgeland Campus. An alumna of the college, she graduated Holmes in 2016 before transferring to Mississippi State University. While at Holmes,…

Makayla Buchanan joined the Holmes Community College staff as the administrative assistant for workforce development on the Ridgeland Campus. Buchanan comes to Holmes after working as a phone clerk at Jackson Healthcare for Women. A graduate of Brandon High School Class of 2020,…

Holmes Community College welcomed Marlena Simon as an Adult Education/High School Equivalency (ABE/HSE) instructor on the Ridgeland Campus. She comes to Holmes with over 29 years of experience working in education. Simon has 20 plus years of experience teaching in Louisiana public schools,…

Holmes Community College launched a new portal for MyHolmes, changing student email from Gmail to Microsoft Office 365 (O365). Students must go through the account activation in the MyHolmes portal before they can access their new email account. The old Gmail account…

Holmes Community College hosted Mississippi’s first statewide memorial service for fallen EMTs, paramedics and other Emergency Medical Services professionals on May 25. The event, held in the McGowan Workforce Training Center on the Ridgeland Campus, recognized 132 emergency medical caregivers in the…

Members of the Holmes Community College Marketing/Recruiting and Communications departments brought home 11 awards during the College Public Relations Association of Mississippi (CPRAM) Awards Program on May 22. The awards program was held in conjunction with the 2023 CPRAM Conference held at…

Officer Patrick Lampkin, a law enforcement officer for the Holmes Community College Ridgeland Campus, was recognized as one of the state’s leading law enforcement officers. He received the “Top Cop” honor from the Mississippi Center for Police and Sheriffs. Officer Lampkin has worked…

Holmes Community College held the 95th Commencement Exercises on Thursday, May 11 in Frank Branch Coliseum on the Goodman Campus. The Goodman Campus, Grenada Campus and Attala Center ceremony was held at 10 a.m. and the Ridgeland Campus and Yazoo Center graduates…

Academic and technical students with exemplary quality point averages are recognized at the end of the fall and spring semesters by being named to the President’s or Dean’s list. To be eligible for such recognition a student must be enrolled in at…

Grenada Police Department veteran Joey Merriman has been named the new chief of police at the Goodman Campus of Holmes Community College. Merriman brings over 25 years of law enforcement experience to the College’s main campus. He attended the Grenada Campus of Holmes Community…