The Forum’s Board of Directors includes:

• Co-Chairman Gordon Fee (former CEO of Lockheed Martin’s Oak Ridge operations)
• Co-Chairman Oliver S. Thomas (Executive Director, Niswonger Foundation)
• Dr. Lynn Cagle (Associate Dean, UT College of Education, Health and Human Science)
• Pearl Coffey (Union County Schools)
• Hardy DeYoung (Alcoa City Schools)
• David Dotson (Executive Director, Dollywood Foundation)
• Mike Edwards (CEO Knoxville Area Chamber Partnership)
• James Haslam II (Chairman, Pilot Oil)
• Dr. William Locke (President, Northeast State Technical Community College)
• Paul Montgomery (Vice President, Talent Management, Eastman Chemical)
• Richard Ray (State Board of Education and former CEO of Alcoa’s Tennessee Operations)
• Billy Stair (Director of Communications and Community Outreach, ORNL UT-Battelle)
• J Laurens Tullock (President, Cornerstone Foundation of Knoxville).