The Board

2025 Board of Directors

OFFICERS

PRESIDENT – Whitney Manahan | Architect – Bur-Wil Construction

VICE PRESIDENT – Adrienne Webster | Owner – AOW Tax & Accounting

TREASURER – Steve Drevik | Chief Principal – Agilaire, LLC

SECRETARY – Matthew Graves | Associate Attorney – Hodges, Doughty & Carson, PLLC

Janie Bitner | Community Volunteer

Kyle Anne Lang | Community Volunteer

Jennifer Montgomery | Broker – Wallace Real Estate

Bridget Mounger | Sr. VP, Mortgage Advisor – Pinnacle Financial Partners

Megan Hatcher Rhodes | Commercial Real Estate Broker – Hatcher-Hill Properties, LLC

Jimmy Ryan | Architect & Designer – Johnson Architecture, Inc.

Chad Tindell | Attorney – Lacy, Price & Wagner, PC

Anthony Wilson | Physician Chair & Assoc. Professor – UTMC Dept. of Family Medicine

Ex-Officio Members

Scott Brooks | Sr. Public Relations Specialist, Tennessee Valley Authority

Lindsay Lanois | Principal Planner and Design Review Program Manager, Knoxville-Knox County Planning

General Counsel

L. Caesar Stair, IV – Bernstein, Stair & McAdams, LLP

Interested in serving on our board? Email christine@knoxheritage.org to begin the conversation.

Honorary Board Members

Joan Allen

Annette Brun

Melissa Charles

Steve Cotham

John Craig

Randall De Ford

Rick Blackburn

Matt Edens

Mike Fowler

Doug McKamey

Todd Morgan

Scott Schimmel

Dorothy Stair

Deceased:

Glenn Bullock

Kristopher Kendrick

Mickey Mallonee

Pat Roddy

Past Board Presidents

2023-2024: Adrienne Webster

2022: Jeff Wilke

2021: Bill Pittman

2020: Mary Pom Claiborne

2019: Chad Tindell

2018: Gary Bentley

2017: Kevin Murphy & Gary Bentley

2015-2016: Rick Blackburn

2013-2014: Annette Brun

2011-2012: Scott Schimmel

2009-2010: John Craig

2007-2008: Dorothy Stair

2005-2006: J. Finbarr Saunders

2002-2004: Randall De Ford

2000-2001: J. Nicholas Arning

1997-1999: Kim Trent

1996: Robert F. Samples

1994–1995: Robert Carpenter

1992–1994: Doug McKamey

1992–1993: Patty Cooper

1990-1991: Malcolm Rogers

1988-1989: Anne Lester

1986-1987: Nancy Benziger Brown

1985-1986: Eugene Burr

1984-1985: Nissa Dahlin Brown

1983-1984: Stephen M. Sumner

1982-1983: Caroline Knight

1979-1982: Ronald A. Childress

1978-1979: Joseph D. Bacon

1976-1978: W. Glenn Bullock

1974-1976: James P. Roddy, III

2021: Jeff Wilke

2020: Bill Pittman