Andrew Medlin Jeopardy Profile: Age, Job, Family, Stats

Find out all the Jeopardy! results for Andrew Medlin, including games played, scores and competitors.

Andrew Medlin Jeopardy Contestant Profile

Andrew Britton Medlin is a high school English and philosophy teacher from Shreveport, Louisiana, appearing on Jeopardy! as a contestant identified simply as a High School Teacher. He teaches at Caddo Parish Magnet High School, one of Shreveport’s academically selective public high schools, where his responsibilities extend well beyond a standard classroom teaching position. He teaches English IV Gifted and Talented and Philosophy and serves as the school’s Gifted and Talented Department Head.

Medlin has spent many years teaching English in the Shreveport-area public school system. Before joining Caddo Magnet, he taught at North Caddo Magnet High School, where he worked with students over multiple grade levels. He joined the Caddo Parish Magnet High School faculty for the 2018–2019 school year. His work there has included advanced English instruction, philosophy, gifted education and mentoring students in writing and academic competitions.

His success as an educator has received significant recognition. In 2019, Medlin received the Yale Educator Award, an honor given to outstanding teachers and counselors nominated by incoming Yale students for having a particularly important influence on their education. He was nominated by former North Caddo Magnet student Luke Couch, whom Medlin had taught English for four years. That year, Yale selected only 55 teachers and 18 counselors from hundreds of nominations spanning the United States and numerous other countries.

Medlin received another major national recognition in connection with the 2023 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. He was identified as a distinguished teacher by Presidential Scholar Ananya Bhatia, with the federal program listing him as an English teacher at Caddo Parish Magnet High School. The recognition adds to a record of students crediting him with having an important influence on their academic development.

Writing and literature are central to Medlin’s teaching. Students working under him have earned recognition in regional literary competitions. At the 2023 ArtBreak Literary Awards, one of his students received the High School Literary Portfolio Award and another earned a Literary Juror’s Choice Award. In 2026, another student taught by Medlin won the high-school Best of Poetry – Haiku award. His participation in the Shreveport-Bossier Holocaust Remembrance Literary & Arts Competition has also been documented across multiple years.

Medlin is also heavily involved in quiz bowl, making his eventual Jeopardy! appearance particularly fitting. He is a member-at-large of the Louisiana Quiz Bowl Association and helps sponsor Caddo Magnet’s Quiz Bowl program. He has also been involved in the school’s summer Quiz Bowl camp for middle-school students, working with fellow sponsor Amanda Lawrence to introduce younger students to academic competition.

His own education combines literature and creative writing. Medlin graduated from Rhodes College in 2003 before completing a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Memphis in 2009. His graduate education helps explain the strong emphasis on writing, literature and creative development that has characterized his teaching career.

Medlin has deep roots in Shreveport. His full name is Andrew Britton Medlin, and public family biographical material records his birth date as June 1, 1981. He is the son of William Deryl Medlin and Sonya M. Medlin and has two younger siblings, Laura Kathleen Medlin and Phillip Stephen Medlin. His father is a longtime Shreveport attorney, while members of the family have longstanding connections to schools and institutions in the area.

Contestant Image Credit: Jeopardy Official Website

Andrew Medlin Jeopardy Results