Oliver “Buzz” Thomas is a Baptist minister, author, educator and attorney. He was executive director of the Niswonger Foundation in Greene County, Tennessee, from 2001 to 2009, when he left to lead the Great Schools Partnership in Knox County, an education foundation supporting public schools. He later became interim director of Knox County Schools in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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