Officers
Susan Edwards, President, VP Customer Services & Communications, KUB
Patricia Watson, Immediate Past President
Jill Van Beke, VP/Secretary, Devon Group
Sharon Johnson, Treasurer, Hines & Company
Board Members
Susan Alexander, Features Editor, Knoxville News Sentinel
Penny Arning, Community Volunteer
Katie Bell, Sr. Manager, Community Relations, TVA
Julia Bentley, VP, Saks Inc.
Bill Beuchat, Claims Manager – Risk Management, Pilot Travel Centers LLC
Alice R. Bowling Wirth, Community Volunteer
Jerry Collins, Sr. Manager, Communications, TVA
Kristi Davis, Attorney, Hodges, Doughty, and Carson
Barbara Dewey, Dean of Libraries, University of Tennessee
Tom Ferriter, President, Bush Brothers & Co.
Rosemary Gilliam, VP & Senior Financial Advisor, The Gilliam, Montgomery Group
Jennifer Holder, VP, Marketing Manager, First Tennessee
Adrian Jay, Co-owner & VP, DoubleJay Creative
Fiona McAnally, Director, Corporate and Community Relations, A.C. Entertainment
Virginia K. Morrow, Sr. VP, Philanthropy, Covenant Health
Alan Nieman, Community Volunteer
Maureen Patteson, President, Media Directions Advertising
Carol Petersen, Community Volunteer
Teresa Scott, Manager, Philanthropic Services, Clayton Bank and Trust
Ken Wellborn, Senior VP Sales and Marketing, Anderson News, LLC
"Friends of Literacy strives to help volunteers realize that their efforts at helping someone learn to read not only changes the life of that person, but also, in the process and result, it changes the entire community. One person. That's how you start to change the world."
—Brad Meltzer