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Janice V. Mims was born in Corbin, Kentucky, in 1936. Her family moved to Roanoke, Virginia, during her senior year of high school. She attended Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee, where she met Paul Mims from Quitman, Georgia. Days after graduating with a major in English in 1958, she and Paul were married and moved to Fort Worth, Texas, where Paul attended Southern Theological Seminary and she began her teaching career.Janice taught English at Carter Junior High School in Arlington, Texas, Azalea Junior High in Norfolk, Virginia, and was a substitute teacher for six years in Atlanta Public Schools.She is the mother of two children: Dr. Joseph Paul Mims, who is a general surgeon at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and ...more