Board of Directors
TFA’s 2009-2010 Board Members
President: Johnny Heard, Hassell & Hughes-Collinwood
1st Vice-President: Kevin Hoyt, Huber Engineered Woods-Spring City
East TN Vice-President: Steve Owen, AbitibiBowater, Calhoun
Middle TN Vice-President: Larry Pitts, G.R. Wood-Cunningham
West TN Vice-President: Pat Elliott, Mayfield Creek Forestry Consultants-Wickliffe, KY
Treasurer: Mike Witt, Individual-Cookeville
Directors: Term Expiring 2012
John Ross, Ross Forestry Partnership-Savannah
David Hand, Smurfit-Stone– Chattanooga
Jay Smith, Middleton Lumber Company –Puryear
Adam Taylor, University of Tennessee Forest Products Center-Knoxville
Rob Harrison, Plateau Properties-Crossville
Dwight King, Volunteer Logging - Piney Flats
Joe Pulley, Pulley Logging-Erin
Tom Skaggs, Outdoors Underwriters-Knoxville
Tom Frost, Temple-Inland– New Johnsonville
Directors: Term Expiring 2011
Mike Barnes, The Sawmill-Hohenwald
Jake Almond, American Forest Management-Oak Ridge
Steve Bond, Forest Management, Inc. -Savannah
Charles Daugherty, Charlin Hollow Tree Farm-Crossville
Mark Palmer, International Paper-Waynesboro
Tommy Graham, Graham Holdings Company-Linden
Ed Clark, Georgia Pacific– Knoxville
Joe Hykra, Atlanta Hardwoods-Germantown
George McClary, Thompson Machinery-Camden
Directors: Term Expiring 2010
Michael Morris, Domtar-Kingsport
Kim Rohr, NewPage Corporation-Dover
Tony Gant, American Forest Management-Waynesboro
Bill Joyce, Middle Tennessee Lumber Co.-Dickson
Richard Jones, PCA-Counce
Don Page, Charles R. Page & Associates-Chattanooga
Robert Williams, Quercus Forest Products-Centerville
Richard Winslow, University of the South-Sewanee
Jay Wolfe, Hankins Forest Products-Savannah
Ex-Officios
Terry Porter, Immediate Past President, ForesTech Resource Solutions
Ken Givens, Commissioner, TN Dept. of Agriculture
Jim Fyke, Commissioner, TN Dept. of Environment & Conservation
Ed Carter, Executive Director, TN Wildlife Resources Agency
Steve Scott, State Forester, TN Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Forestry
Tom Speaks, Forest Supervisor, Cherokee National Forest
Rhedona Rose, Representative, Tennessee Farm Bureau
Keith Belli, University of Tennessee
County Forestry Representatives:
Term Expires: 2010
Bo Higginbottom, Hardin County CFA
West TN CFA Representative
Charles Robertson, Southern Middle TN CFA
Middle TN CFA Representative
Mike Cardin, Marion County CFA
East TN CFA Representative