Ms. Carol Whitehead Sutton served as president of the Miami Jackson Generals Alumni Association, Inc., from 2000 until her demise in 2012. She was a 1975 graduate of Miami Jackson Sr. High School. She completed an Associate Degree at Miami-Dade Community College in 1979.

Ms. Carol Whitehead Sutton was employed with the United States Postal Service from 1980 until she passed. Her love for helping her "fellow man" led her to become a Shop Steward in 1981, with the American Postal Workers Union. As a Shop Steward, she assisted employees with employer work infractions and contractual violations. She often told her friends and co-workers that God was using her as a "vessel" to assist employees who were wrongfully terminated or suspended and needed a "voice" to plead their case. Here, again, her passion and enthusiasm for advocacy paved the way for her move forward in the ranks of the American Postal Workers Union from Shop Steward to Assistant Clerk Craft President, Clerk Craft President, and Vice President (two consecutive 3 - year terms) and the second female African-American President in the history of the Miami Area Local 172 and the One Seventy-Two Holding Association.

She was in the first year of her 3- year term as president when she passed away in 2012. She was also affiliated with the AFL-CIO, NAACP, and Martin Luther King Trade Coalition. I.C.A.R.E. Organization for Inner City Schools and the A. Philip Randolph Institute.

In her honor, the alumni association's annual scholarship award is named, "The Miami Jackson Generals Alumni Association, Inc., Carol Whitehead-Sutton Scholarship."