Jennie Burks attended the university and also Lincoln Memorial University. From 1910 to 1914, she served as superintendent of the Claiborne County Schools and is believed to be the first woman elected superintendent of a Tennessee county school system. She was the first female president of the East Tennessee Education Association, and in 1914 she addressed the National Education Association at its convention in Detroit. She moved to Knoxville in 1917 and taught history at Knoxville High School and was principal of West View Elementary School. She was a field representative of the US Office of Education and helped to organize Junior Red Cross chapters in schools and the War Garden Army in the South. About 1922 she helped to raise an endowment of $1 million for Lincoln Memorial University and succeeded in getting a liberal donation from US President Calvin Coolidge. She married Wiley L. Morgan in 1923.