Before becoming the first Black principal in the history of Brooklet Elementary School in 2005, before earning her Education Specialist degree (Ed. S.) in Leadership and Administration in 2001, before graduating from Georgia Southern University with a master's in Middle-Grade Education in 1985, before graduating from Savannah State College (now university) with a B.S. in Chemistry/Mathematics in 1970, and even before graduating third in her class from Candler County’s Lillian Street High in 1966, Minnie Priscilla Faye Groover Clifton knew God had a calling on her life.