Teacher/Coach 7 Years (1950 – 1957)

• Alcoa High School (1950 – 1957)
  • Head Football
    • 30-game winning streak

Assistant Principal/Coach 5 Years (1960 – 1965)

• Alcoa High School
  • Football

Principal 6 Years (1966 – 1972)

• Alcoa High School

Assistant Superintendent of Schools/Business Manager 11 Years (1973 – 1984)

• Alcoa City Schools

School Superintendent 4 Years (1984 – 1988)

• Alcoa City Schools
• Served in the Alcoa school system as a teacher, coach, principal, assistant superintendent, and superintendent
• Instrumental in assisting in racially integrating Alcoa High School in 1965
• Coached first black athletes in an integrated school in Blount County
• Played football and basketball at East Tennessee State University
• Served 3 years as Head Football Coach and Athletic Director at Emory and Henry College in Emory, VA (1957 – 1960)
• Awarded the City of Alcoa Diamond Anniversary Award for his dedicated service to Alcoa as Superintendent, Principal, Coach, and Teacher in 1995
• City of Alcoa declared November 26 – December 2, 1995 as “Bill Bailey Week” and he was featured on “Profiles of Blount County” in 1996
• Served on the Blount County Board of Education from 1990 until his death in 1996
• Inaugural Inductee into the Blount County Hall of Fame in November of 1996
• 1953 Roy N. Lodwich Coach of the Year Award for the state in 1954
• Lettered in 4 sports in high school
• Alcoa First United Methodist Church named a scholarship fund in his honor, the “Bill Bailey Scholarship Fund” to help young people go to college