Presidential Scholar recipient and ABAC Ambassador Historian Jessica Ashley Kalina, is a graduate of Griffin High School.

   Kalina was a two-time Governors’ Honors nominee, a Global Achievers’ nominee and the recipient of the National Leadership Merit Award, the All American Scholars Award, and the International Foreign Language Award.

   She finished second in the Griffin High School science fair and was a member of the National Junior Classical League, the Latin Honors Society, Key Club International, the National Beta Club, and the Interact Club.   Kalina is an animal science major.