Audience members express emotion as public comments are given during the DeSoto County School Board meeting in Hernando, Miss. on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
In DeSoto County, some community members and the school board want Michele Henley, the board’s former president, to resign. They say she wrote a letter and testified in support of a woman who was eventually convicted of sexual battery against a minor. Henley has denied those accusations.
