Jo Ann Hood is presently in her twenty-ninth year as Director of John Overton High School Band.
She is a Past President of the Tennessee Music Educators Association, the Middle Tennesseee School Band and Orchestra Association, the Tennessee Bandmasters Association, and Phi Beta Mu National School Bandmasters Fraternity. She served as State Chair for the National Band Association for three years, as High School Representative for two years, and as Southern Division Chairperson on the NBA Board of Control for two years. She holds membership in a number of professional organizations including TMEA, the Tennessee Bandmasters Association, National Band Association, American School Band Directors Association, Tennessee Education Association, National Education Association, and metropolitan Nashville Education Association. She is a member of Delta Omicron, Kappa Delta Pi and serves as Executive Secretary-Treasurer of Phi Beta Mu National School Bandmasters Fraternity.
Over the years, Ms. Hood served as Chairperson of the Tennessee All-State Band and as All-State General Chairperson and on the Executive Boards of TMEA and MTSBOA. She currently serves on the Marching Band Advisory Board for Bands of America, the Jury for the John Phillip Sousa Foundation Sudler Sheild, and is Exhibits Chairperson for the TMEA. She was on the staff for the 2010 United States Army All American Marching Band.
In five different years, Ms. Hood was a recipient of the National Band Association's Certificate of Merit for Marching Excellence and was inducted into the Middle Tennessee State University Band of Blue Club Hall of Fame in 1986. She was selected as an outstanding Young WOmen of American in 1987 and was a recipient of the National Band Association's Citation of Excellence in four different years. She was awarded the 1991 Scroll of Exellence for Outstanding Contribution to Bands and Band Music by the Women Band Directors National Assocaition and twice received the Sudler Order of Merit of the John Phillip Sousa Foundation. She is a 2005 inductee into the National High School Band Directors Hall of Fame and was inducted into the American School Band Directors Association in 2008.