2025-2026 Board of Directors

  • TFA President

    Jay Wolfe
    Hankins Forest Products
    Savannah

  • First Vice President

    Dr. Adam Taylor
    UT Wood Products Extension
    Knoxville

  • East TN Vice President

    Neil Owens
    American Forest Management
    Kingston

  • Middle TN Vice President

    Larry Pitts
    Retired
    Cunningham

  • West TN Vice President

    Brian Berryman
    Independent Stave Company
    Waynesboro

  • Treasurer

    Harry Bledsoe
    Southern Sawyers, LLC
    Stevenson, AL

Term Expiring 2027

  • Ron Adcock
    Hood Container
    Waverly

  • Eric Dennis
    Straight Fork Forest Management
    Huntsville

  • Chris Keziah
    Oak Ridge Hardwoods
    Oak Ridge

  • Dwight King
    Volunteer Logging
    Piney Flats

  • Johnny Heard
    Hassell & Hughes Lumber Co.
    Collinwood

  • Lee McCoy
    Speyside Bourbon Stave Mill
    Johnson City

  • Ed Moore
    Smurfit Westrock
    Stevenson, AL

  • Steve Owen
    Resolute Forest Products
    Calhoun

  • Keith Price
    Price Sawmill
    Selmer

  • Michael Self
    Sustainable Forestry Management
    Cookeville

Term Expiring 2028

  • Neal Ashburn
    Power Equipment
    Chattanooga

  • Stacey Batey
    Curvey Road Sawmill
    Charlotte

  • Mike Cardin
    Cardin Forest Products
    South Pittsburg

  • Drew Getty
    Thompson Appalachian Hardwoods
    Huntland

  • Tommy Graham
    Graham Holdings Company
    Linden

  • Tony Honeycutt
    Mullican Flooring
    Johnson City

  • Kent Johnson
    Huber Engineered Woods
    Spring City

  • Jacky Robbins
    Thompson Machinery
    Beech Bluff

  • Alex Savage
    Savage Lumber Company
    Doyle

  • Scott Stone
    Canal Wood
    Cleveland

Term Expiring 2029

  • Jake Almond
    Timber Rose Farm
    Kingston

  • Wayne Anthony
    Timberland Investment Resources 
    Chattanooga

  • Brandon Clark
    Clark Lumber Company
    Red Boiling Springs

  • Trevor Haywood
    Trevor Haywood Timber Company
    Huntingdon

  • Kevin Hoyt
    UT Ag Research & Education Center
    Oak Ridge

  • Jesse Joyce
    Middle Tennessee Lumber Company
    Burns

  • Allen Keller
    Keller Lumber Company
    Stevenson, AL

  • Brent McDonald
    Roach Sawmill & Lumber Company
    Savannah

  • Traci Middleton
    Middleton Lumber Company
    Puryear

  • Rick Sluss
    F&W Forestry Services
    Clinton

County Forestry Association Representatives

  • Middle Tennessee

    Bill Legg
    Southern Middle Tennessee County Association

Ex Officios

  • Immediate Past President
    Wayne Anthony
    Timberland Investment Resources
    Chattanooga

    State Forester
    Heather Slayton
    TN Dept. of Agriculture
    Nashville

    Commissioner
    Andy Holt
    TN Dept. of Agriculture
    Nashville

    Commissioner
    David W. Salyers
    TN Dept. of Environment & Conservation, Nashville

    Executive Director
    Jason Maxedon
    TN Wildlife Resources Agency
    Nashville

    Department Head
    Dr. Adam Ahlers
    UT School of Natural Resources
    Knoxville

    Representative
    Stephen Huff
    TN Farm Bureau Federation
    Greeneville

    TPC President
    Tom Midyett
    TN Paper Council
    Knoxville

    Representative
    Nathan Wilson
    Univ. of the South/ Domain Manager, Sewanee

    Mike Wright
    Cherokee Natl. Forest
    Interim Supervisor,
    Cleveland