Candice McQueen is an American academic administrator serving as the 18th president of Lipscomb University since 2021.
[2] She lived in Iran for three years while her parents taught at the Tehran American School.
[3] She served as an assistant instructor and supervisor of student teachers at the University of Texas at Austin.
[2] In January 2015, McQueen was appointed by Governor Bill Haslam as commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Education.
[2] McQueen was the chief executive officer of the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET), founded by educational reformer and philanthropist Lowell Milken, from January 2019 to August 2021.