Board of Trustees
Leadership Nashville Board of Trustees 2007-2008
President
Thomas J. Sherrard
Senior Partner, Sherrard & Roe
Vice President
Deborah A. McDermott
President, Young Broadcasting
Secretary
Joyce E. Searcy
President, The Bethlehem Centers
Treasurer
James S. Gulmi
Senior Vice President & CFO, Genesco Inc.
Chairman Emeritus
Nelson C. Andrews
Chairman, Brookside Properties
Finance Committee Chair
Ralph Davis
Chairman, Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis
Alumni Association President
Irwin E. Fisher
Vice President Sales Administration & Training,
Director of Marketing, Loews Vanderbilt Hotel
General Chairman
J. Stephen Turner
President, Butler’s Run
Trustees
Alphonso R. Bodie
President, Bodie & Associates
Dennis C. Bottorff
Chairman, Council Capital Management
Jack O. Bovender, Jr.
Chairman & CEO, HCA The Healthcare Company
Davis H. Carr
Attorney, Boult Cummings Conners & Berry
J. William Denny
President, Denny Properties
Marty G. Dickens
Retired President, AT&T, Tennessee
Michael A. Edwards
State President, First Tennessee Bank
Roy O. Elam III, MD
Physician/Associate Professor, Vanderbilt Medical Center
Kitty Moon Emery
President, KittyMoon Enterprises
Mark V. Ezell
President, Purity Dairies
Farzin Ferdowsi
President & CEO, Management Resources Co.
Darrell Freeman, Sr.
Chairman, Zycron Computer Services Inc.
Daniel A. Gaudette
Interim Director, United Way
Senior Vice President, US Manufacturing & Quality Assurance, Nissan North America
Joel Gordon
President, The Gordon Group
Thelma M. Harper
Tennessee State Senator
Samuel H. Howard
Chairman & CEO, Phoenix Holdings
Martha R. Ingram
Chairman, Ingram Industries
Melvin N. Johnson
President, Tennessee State University
Joe Kelley
Retired President & CEO, American General Life & Accident Insurance Company
Lindsay (Jerry) Lee
President, Tennessee AFL-CIO Labor Council
Robert E. McNeilly III
Chairman, President & CEO, SunTrust Bank Nashville
Kenneth L. Roberts
President Emeritus, The Frist Foundation
Ronald L. Samuels
President, Avenue Bank
Douglas A. Small
President, Douglas A. Small Company
Chairman, Thread F/X Inc.
John F. Stein
President, Bank of America Tennessee
E. W. (Rusty) Stephenson
Retired Senior Executive Vice President/State Head, Regions Bank
Cal Turner Jr.
Chairman, Cal Turner Family Foundation
Retired Chairman, Dollar General Corporation
Deborah F. Turner
President & General Manager, NewsChannel 5
Shirley A. Zeitlin
CEO, Shirley Zeitlin & Company Realtors
Trustee Emeritus
DeWitt Ezell, Jr.
Retired President, BellSouth Tennessee
Robert C. H. Mathews, Jr.
Chairman, The Mathews Company