The Tennessee Association of Community Leadership (TACL) recently elected their Board of Directors & Officers for 2024. TACL serves as a resource to help build, support, and enhance community leadership development in counties across the state.
Elected to serve as our 2024 Officers are: Chair: Mark Hutchins, Board Member of IMPACT Leadership (Middle TN); Vice Chair: Kathy Parks, Youth Leadership Roane County (East TN); Secretary: Cary Vaughn, Leadership Millington/WestStar (West TN); Treasurer: Virginia Grimes, WestStar Leadership (West TN); Immediate Past Chair: Stephanie Brackman, Leadership Rutherford (Middle TN); and Judy Renshaw, TACL Executive Director.
Board members include: Trish Bouldin, Leadership Lincoln (Middle TN); Deann Bradford, L’Evate (Middle TN); Karyn Clark, Leadership Claiborne (East TN); Brandy Gentry, Leadership Monroe County (East TN); Tasha Holmes, Leadership Collierville (West TN); Mark Hutchins, Board Member of IMPACT Leadership (Middle TN); Courtney Hutcheson, Youth Leadership Knoxville (East TN); Delaney Timberman, Leadership Hardin County (West TN); Kara Williams, Leadership Maury County (Middle TN); Brittany Bowers, IMPACT Leadership (Middle TN); Lisa Collett, Leadership Morgan County (East TN); Amy Goode, Leadership Tennessee (Middle TN); Armand Hebert, Leadership Paris-Henry County (West TN); Lauren Saliba, Leadership Jackson (West TN); Kathy Parks, Youth Leadership Roane County (East TN); and Stephanie Brackman, Leadership Rutherford (Middle TN).
Serving in an Ex-Officio position are: Virginia Grimes, WestStar (West TN); Jack Matthis, Leadership Jackson / WestStar (West TN) — Accountant; Robert (Bob) Smith, WestStar (Middle TN) — Advisor; Cary Vaughn, Leadership Millington/WestStar (West TN) — Fundraising; Martin Jelinek, Leadership Jackson / WestStar (West TN) — Webmaster; Susan Carlisle, UT Southern Regional Leadership (Middle TN) — Marketing Support.
A total of 105 leadership programs, 27 individuals across the state make up the membership for the association. These members include adult, youth, and senior leadership development programs, as well as alumni associations representing communities across the state of Tennessee. Our future goal is to have every community leadership program working with us as members to advance leadership development across the state. We are also proud to have four corporate sponsorships: Dillard Door; Love Worth Finding Ministries; Tennessee Valley Authority and Cary E. Vaughn. Their investment in TACL allows us to expand the resources we have available to further our mission.
“Our mission is to be a resource for the growth and development of existing, as well as new leadership development programs across the state,” said Judy Renshaw, Executive Director. “We invite leadership programs; their board members and alumni to attend our fall 2024 Annual Leadership Conference this year in Cookeville, Tennessee on October 23-25. The Conference is just one of the great opportunities we provide for networking, growth, sharing of best practices, and recognition of the great job being done in each of our counties across the state by leadership development programs…..creating leaders to lead our communities and state now and in the future.”
