Career Highlights

• Retired, vice president of Bohan Advertising/Marketing
• Excommunicated, corporate vice president of communications of Gaylord Entertainment Company
• Still active as freelance travel and feature writer
• Author, “100 Things To Do in Nashville Before You Die”
• Accredited member, Public Relations Society of America
• Former assistant travel editor of Southern Living Magazine
• Former assistant news editor of The Birmingham News
• Member, Southeast Outdoor Press Association

Key Accomplishments

• Marco Polo member, Society of American Travel Writers
• Chairman, Southeast Tourism Society
• President, Public Relations Society of America, Nashville Chapter
• Member, executive board, Middle Tennessee Council, Boy Scouts of America
• Helped manage multiple communication programs for community-impactful corporate investments
• Helped manage several crisis communication situations
• Involved in various roles at West End United Methodist Church

Education

• Journalism graduate, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, master of history degree from the University of Alabama-Birmingham

Career Highlights

• Associate pastor of Congregational Care, Jackson (Tennessee) First UMC
• Pastor for Byrdstown First UMC/Lovelady Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)/Livingston UM Fellowship
• Chaplain in residency, Saint Thomas Ascension Hospitals/Nashville Partnership (beginning January 2023)

Special Moments in Music and Mission Experiences

• Music ministry with sisters – Board of Evangelism, UM missions, Lake Junaluska Singers
• All Nations Mission Center/Bethany Home in Lexington, Kentucky – providing care, hospitality, and music for missionaries/pastors from Korea who came for spiritual renewal and retreat
• Music therapy presenter for International Conference for Association of Social Workers, Oncology and A.I.D.S., Vancouver, BC

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Music/Music Therapy, Arizona State University
• MA in Aging and Spirituality, Asbury Theological Seminary

Career Highlights

• Board of Commissioners — Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency
• Co-chair Affordable Housing Task Force NOAH (Nashvillians Organized for Action and Hope)
• Mayor's Affordable Housing Task Force — Metro Nashville
• Founding board member — Tennessee Affordable Housing Coalition

Key Accomplishments

• Lead housing affordability negotiator for community benefits agreements with developers
• Liaison between developer, housing voucher provider, and seniors with vouchers at apartments being torn down to prevent homelessness
• Housing policy advocate at local, state, and federal level. Current efforts resulted in a Metro Council special committee to broaden efforts for DADU/ADU (detached or attached dwelling units) for low to moderate income homeowners.

Education

• MSE and BSE, University of Central Arkansas
• Post grad studies in Nonprofit Management, Duke and Harvard

Career Highlights

• Retired after 34 years at HCA Healthcare, Nashville, Tennessee, most recently as Assistant Vice President, Human Resources
• Corporate HCA Hope Fund Team Leader
• Chair of the HCA Corporate Employee Advisory Group

Key Accomplishments

• Experienced HR business partner supporting over 7,000 executives and corporate and human resources employees at HCA
• Established and directed a service center model in the HCA environment
• Directed outsourced HCA vender relationships from RFP to contract negotiations to day-to-day operations
• Served on non-profit boards including Miriam’s Promise and Creative Recovery Communities
• Charter Member of Christ United Methodist Church, Franklin, Tennessee
• Chaired Christ UMC committees including Administrative Council, Staff Parish Relations, Strategic Study Group, and Building Committee
• Current chair of Christ UMC's Finance Committee

Education

• BA, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; double major in Business Administration and Sociology
• Completed Harvard/HCA STAHR Leadership Direct Program

Career Highlights

• Worked in numerous nursing fields including psychiatric, medical surgery, intensive and coronary care, camp and school nursing, and hospital bill auditing
• Supervisor of Intensive and Coronary Care, Emergency Room, Outpatient Department, and Central Supply, Oak Park (Illinois) Hospital
• Head nurse, Medical Surgery Unit, University of Colorado Hospital, Denver

Key Accomplishments

• Developed, organized, and created a 501(c)3 ministry for widows and widowers called Wings of Hope Widowed Ministry. Wings of Hope assists widows in developing Wings of Hope chapters and assists churches in developing widowed persons ministries
• Harry Denman Award recipient
• Mother of the Year, DeSoto (Texas) Nazarene Church
• Texas Lifetime PTA Award
• Mother of two wonderful and successful children

Education

• B.S. in Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City
• Now in my late 70’s, I’ve spent a lifetime gaining wisdom, experience, and spiritual growth

Career Highlights

• Currently interim senior pastor at Columbia (Tennessee) 1st United Methodist
• District superintendent, Tennessee River District (2020 – 2023)
• United Methodist pastor:
  Covington 1st UMC (Tipton County) 2017 – 2020
  Jackson 1st UMC (Madison County) 2010 – 2017
  Milan 1st UMC (Gibson County) 2007 – 2010
  Alamo and Center UMC Charge (Crockett County) 2004 – 2007
  Germantown Associate (Shelby County) 1998 – 2004
• Secular employment (prior to ministry): Served as Human Resource director and general manager with Sunbelt Hotels, Inc. and various convention hotels throughout the Southeast

Key Accomplishments

• Serve on various boards and agencies of The United Methodist Church
• Trained as a Rule 31 Tennessee Family Mediator
• Extensive training in pastoral leadership and best practices
• Certified Hotel Administrator, American Hotel & Motel Association

Education

• Bachelor of Science, Industrial Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
• Master of Divinity, Memphis (Tennessee) Theological Seminary, Summa Cum Laude

Career Highlights

• Volunteer Older Adult Coordinator at Germantown UMC for 22 years
• Welcome Wagon lady in Germantown
• Taught high school English and speech

Key Accomplishments

• Along with my husband of 56 years, raising three adult daughters who are successful in their careers and as mothers
• With the support of two committees, re-energizing a strong older adult ministry at Germantown UMC over 20 years ago
• Setting up a volunteer program at Germantown High School that impacted the attendance and guidance offices and facilitated better communication between the school and parents

Education

• BA in English from Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Career Highlights

• Retired US Navy chief warrant officer
• Retired assistant executive director, Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability
• Retired vice president of Community Outreach, Signature HealthCARE
• Co-founder of Silver Angels, LLC
• Board chair, Fort Houston Artisan Support Project
• Board chair, ENCORE Ministry of the Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference of The United Methodist Church
• Board member and president of the Tennessee Federation for the Aging
• Member of Healthy Nashville Leadership Council, Metro Dept. of Health

Key Accomplishments

• As ENCORE Ministry board chair and board member, Charles provides leadership and direction, planning advice, financial management, new program development, and historical perspective
• Works with a multidisciplinary advisory group to assess Davidson County’s health-care delivery system and establish strategic priorities for health system improvement
• Helped Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability launch statewide home and community-based services programs for vulnerable adults with financial limitations
• Helped Signature HealthCARE create a subsidiary providing in-home care services

Education

• Graduate of Vanderbilt University, with a BA in English literature/philosophy

Career Highlights

• Ordained elder and member of the Tennessee-Western Kentucky (TWK) Conference of The United Methodist Church
• Professor of Pastoral Theology, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary
• President of the United Methodist Foundation for the TWK Conference
• Adjunct faculty for Indiana University School of Philanthropy and the United Methodist Course of Study

Key Accomplishments

• Co-developed Ministry and Money: A Practical Guide for Pastors course and co-published a book by the same name with his wife, Janet
• Offer seminars to clergy and lay leaders regarding the critical nature of financial ministry
• Coauthor (with Janet) of 2012 and 2016 United Methodist Guidelines for Finance Committees
• Author of The Face of Forgiveness: A Pastoral Theology of Shame and Redemption
• Board member of the Foundation for Evangelism
• Consultant with pastors

Education

• Degrees from Taylor University, Asbury Theological Seminary, and Boston College

Career Highlights

• Registered nurse
• Diaconal minister of parish nursing
• Clinical nurse supervisor of medical-surgical nursing
• Clinical nurse educator
• Clinical chaplain
• Chairperson of Health and Wellness Initiatives
• Ordained deacon in full connection with the Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference
• Board member of ENCORE Ministry
• Disaster case manager with Disaster Recovery Connection
• Interim lead pastor positions
• Archives and History Committee member
• Suicide prevention in the African American Faith Community Coalition
• Internship with Tennessee Justice Center
• Senior pastor Banks Chapel-St. John Charge

Key Accomplishments

• Serves on the Grants Committee, ENCORE Ministry
• Accepting my call to ministry and becoming an ordained deacon in full connection, 2003
• Recipient of 2005 Richard Allison Social Holiness Award
• Immediate past chairperson of Order of Deacons, Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference
• Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
• Women’s Leadership trip to Thailand
• Served congregations as associate and lead pastor through transition periods
• Elected clergy delegate to General Conference 2020
• Honored and blessed to have been my mother’s primary caregiver

Education

• Undergraduate degree in psychology from Dillard University, New Orleans
• Undergraduate degree in nursing from Tennessee State University
• Parish nurse training, Vanderbilt Center for Parish Nursing and Health Ministries
• Basic Graduate Theological Studies from United Theological Seminary
• Master of Divinity Degree with Central Theological Seminary

Career Highlights

• Secretary-treasurer and board member of the Tennessee Nursery and Landscape Association for 10 years
• Founded, in 1996, and continue to serve as president of Cherry Springs Nursery, Inc.
• Board chair, Hope Center of Warren County
• Former member of the Warren County Board of Education
• Former president of the Warren County Methodist Laity for 10 years
• Veteran of the US Navy — served in Vietnam with the US 7^th fleet and the 3^rd Marine Division

Key Accomplishments

• Served on the Building and Finance committees of Centertown UMC during the construction of a new church on a 17-acre campus with an approximate total cost of 1.75 million dollars
• Serving as lay leader of the Caney Fork River District of the TWK Conference of The United Methodist Church
• Serving as church lay leader for Centertown UMC

Education

• 1974 graduate of Tennessee Technological University with a degree in accounting

Career Highlights

• Chairman and co-founder, LBMC Financial Services
• Past board member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Past board member and president, Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Past board member and finance committee chair, Nashville Symphony Orchestra
• Past chair of Brentwood United Methodist Church Foundation

Key Accomplishments

• Named Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting by Accounting Today
• Certified Public Accountant
• Personal Financial Specialist
• Recipient of Tennessee Technological University Outstanding Business Leadership Award
• Recipient of Louis Johnson Award for Outstanding Alumnus

Education

• Tennessee Technological University, Accounting

Career Highlights

• Currently in the private practice of law in Brentwood and Sewanee, Tennessee
  • Tennessee Supreme Court, practice before all Tennessee state courts
  • S. Supreme Court; Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals; United States District Courts for the Western, Middle, and Eastern districts of Tennessee
• Retired from the State of Tennessee after working with the Tennessee Court of Appeals, the Tennessee General Assembly, the Attorney General of Tennessee and as General Counsel to the Tennessee Department of Health
• Lead counsel in civil cases regulating non-profit entities, including
  • Memphis Publishing Company v. Cherokee Children & Family Services, Inc., 87 S.W.3d 67 (Tenn. 2002) (Cherokee I, public benefit corporation may be subject to the Public Records Act).
  • Summers v. Cherokee Children & Family Services, Inc., 112 S.W.3d 486 (Tenn.App. 2002), t.a. denied, (Tenn. 2002) (Cherokee II, standards for non-profit governance).
  • Summers v. Estate of Ford, 146 S.W.3d 541 (Tenn.App. 2004), no p.t.a. (disposition of non-profit assets).
• Former Adjunct Lecturer of Law, Belmont University Law School

Education

• Studied, non-profit administration, Tennessee State University, College of Public Service
• Studied, Corruption Control and Organizational Integrity, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• J.D. Vanderbilt University School of Law
• B.A., cum laude, Vanderbilt University, double major in economics and English

Career Highlights

• Retired US Air Force colonel
• Retired director of Construction Management, State of Tennessee
• Founding president & CEO, CD Steger Construction, Inc.
• President, Tennessee Conference United Methodist Men
• President, Society of American Military Engineers
• Former board member, Society of Saint Andrew
• Fellow of the Society of John Wesley
• Lay leader, Red River District
• Church Council chair, Gordon Memorial UMC

Key Accomplishments

• Board Member of Grants Committee funding much-needed programmatic and facility improvements throughout the Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference
• Gordon Memorial UMC Habitat for Humanity coordinator for over 22 years, providing affordable housing in the Nashville area
• Assisted in the distribution of over 85,000 pounds of fresh vegetables in the Nashville area over the last year

Education

• BS: Civil Engineering, Tennessee State University
• MBA: Master’s in Business Management, Pepperdine University

Career Highlights

• Served for 35 years as professor and dean at seminaries and church-related colleges. Taught ministry with, to, and by older adults.
• Director of Turner Center for Church Leadership
• Ordained elder in The United Methodist Church; last full-time appointment, First UMC, Lawrenceburg, Tennessee
• Variety of interim and part-time appointments in former Northern New Jersey Conference, North Georgia Conference, Western North Carolina Conference, former West Michigan Conference, East Ohio Conference, and former Tennessee Conference

Key Accomplishments

• Author of books and countless articles including chapters in Gerontology in Theological Education: Local Program Development; editors, Barbara Payne and Earl D. C. Brewer
• Founding member of MYRide Lawrence
• Board of Advisors member of Lawrence County Health Council

Education

• BA from West Virginia Wesleyan College
• MA in Christian Education and M. Div. from Methodist Theological School in Ohio
• ED D, Teachers College, Columbia University
• Post-doctoral work in Gerontology, Georgia State