Mr. Eddie Tyler is the Superintendent of Baldwin County Public Schools. Mr. Tyler was appointed superintendent on September 17, 2015. He is a veteran of Baldwin County Public Schools, having served 25 years in our school system before he became superintendent of Eufaula City School System in February 2012.

Mr. Tyler will mark his 49th year in education on July 1, 2024. His career started in Monroeville, Alabama, where he spent his first seven years in education.

In the fall of 1983, he began teaching in his hometown of Mobile, Alabama, for four years. In 1987, he moved to the Baldwin County Public School System and remained with Baldwin County for 25 years until he moved to Eufaula, Alabama.

In his tenure as an educator, Mr. Tyler has served as a teacher, bus driver, assistant coach, athletic director, and head football, baseball, basketball, soccer, tennis and track coach. Mr. Tyler also served as an assistant principal for seven years, a high school principal for five, and for four years, prior to Eufaula, as Assistant Superintendent of the Baldwin County School System.

Mr. Tyler earned his high school diploma in 1970 from Murphy High School in Mobile, Alabama, then an undergraduate degree in 1976 from the University of South Alabama and a master's in education and administrative certification from the University of West Alabama in 1998.

Mr. Tyler is a 2011 graduate of the University of Alabama Superintendent’s Academy. Additionally, he is a member of School Superintendents of Alabama (SSA) and the Council for Leaders in Alabama Schools (CLAS).

As one of six children, Mr. Tyler describes himself as a blue-collar worker in a white-collar position. He credits his parents for a strong work ethic and sound moral principles. Mr. Tyler is married to Alison Tyler and has three children from a previous marriage, Chase, Abby, and the late Forrest. He enjoys spending time with family, exercising, and working in his yard.