Ja Chambless is the director of Pattillo Center School, Inc. in DeWitt, Arkansas since August of 2007. She has a Masters in Early Childhood Special Education the University of Little Rock. She taught preschool for Great Rivers Cooperative for three years and then was an Early Childhood Instructor for Phillips Community College for Arkansas County for seven years. She is a member of Arkansas Early Childhood Association, vice president of DeWitt Chamber of Commerce and a board member of Developmental Disabililties Association.