As President of Clovis Community College, Dr. Armstrong is responsible for leadership, budget oversight, and supervision of California’s 113th community college, which is a TOP transfer college in California and serves over 13,000 students annually. She is leading the college in implementing the new educational master plan and strategic plan, expanding the Career Technical Education program, and overseeing the $70 million new facilities project.

Since coming to Clovis, Dr. Armstrong has been appointed to serve on the CMAC Board and CVHEC Board. She is a member of Soroptimist International of Clovis, BWOPA and BPAC.

Dr. Armstrong has published on topics of learning and memory and on the importance of the community college in preparing African American, Hispanic, and women for STEM careers. She was selected by the Arkansas Community College Student Success Center and Achieving the Dream to be one of only 50 nationally certified Student Success/Guided Pathways Coaches and one of the only 8 selected to serve as an Arkansas Holistic Student Support Coach.

Dr. Armstrong earned her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Howard University in Physiological/Neuropsychology. She has postdoctoral training in Electrophysiology from Northwestern Medical School and Developmental Neurobiology from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Additionally, she has Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization certifications.

She is the elder daughter of Drs. Prince and Willie Armstrong, a sister to Dr. Jada Armstrong, and a proud mother to two accomplished daughters, Jalea Jackson and Troy Saenz.

Her family instilled in her the importance of being blessed and giving back and the following is the scripture that her family placed upon us all, and one she lives by: To whom much is given, much is required. – Luke 12:48