Prior to employment with Aledo ISD in July 2021, Datra Lonon was an assistant principal at Kirby Middle School in the Wichita Falls ISD since January 2019. Prior to that, she was an English teacher at McNiel Middle School in WFISD and a reading teacher at Washington-Jackson Elementary in WFISD from 2013 to 2018. From 2008 to 2013, Lonon worked as a special education and general education paraprofessional at Washington-Jackson Elementary. She earned a Bachelor of Applied Science degree from Wayland Baptist University and a Master in Educational Leadership degree from Lamar University.