Get to know our team.

Staff

	Josie Ballin     Director of Marketing and Donor Engagement     [email protected]     direct: 901.341.0401
	Carmeon Hamilton     Art by Design Show Coordinator     [email protected]     direct: 901.341.0409
	Christine Helmick     Art by Design Event Coordinator     [email protected]     direct: 901.578.2760                     Tracy Lauritzen Wright     Chief Operating Officer     [email protected]     direct: 901.341.0407
	Ellen Lester     Chief Financial Officer     [email protected]     direct: 901.341.0404
	Kelsea Lewis     Development & Office Coordinator     [email protected]     direct: 901.578.2787
	Colleen McCartney     Grants & Initiatives Manager     [email protected]     direct: 901.341.0403
	Elizabeth Rouse     President & Chief Executive Officer     [email protected]     direct: 901.341.0410

Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Pat Danehy Chair
Principal, NewSouth Capital Management

Kathy Gale Uhlhorn  Vice Chair

Gretchen McLennon  Secretary
DI Studio, Founder and President

Jon Moorehead  Treasurer
Audit & Assurance Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Bruce B. Hopkins  
Retired Chairman, First Horizon

Greg Baudoin
Owner, Greg Baudoin Interior Design

Greg Fletcher
Retired Attorney, Baker Donelson

Trow Gillespie
President, NewSouth Capital Management

Lucy Lee Immediate Past Chair

Dr. Russ Wigginton
Chief Postsecondary Impact Officer, State Collaborative on Reforming Education

Gary Wunderlich
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Live Oak Merchant Partners

Oscar Adams
SVP, Trading Strategies Group, Vining Sparks

Bo Allen
West Tennessee Region President, First Horizon

C. David Biggers, Jr.
Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office

Terri S. Browne
Global Chief People Officer, Sedgwick

Michael Campanaro
VP, IT, AutoZone

Bill Carkeet, Jr.
Principal/CEO, Oden & Associates

Kate Connell
Investment Manager, Gilliland Investments

Bob Craddock
Partner, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP

Maysey Craddock
Artist

Michael Drake
CEO, masterIT

Jon Ernst
Retired Vice President/General Manager, International Paper

Martin Hand
Chief Donor Officer, ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Whitney Hardy
Founder & Executive Director, 3RDSPACE

Wilton D. "Chick" Hill
WDH Holdings, LLC

Mary Hopkins
VP, Internal Audit, Servicemaster

Juanita Ortiz
Chief Impact Officer, Slingshot Memphis

Reginald R. Paige, Sr.
Associate General Counsel, Evergreen Packaging, LLC

Ashley Patterson
In-House Trial Counsel, FedEx

Ron Walter
President & General Manager, WREG-TV Channel 3