Board of Directors

PEF is guided by a volunteer board of directors who represent the corporate, higher education, foundation and civic communities of Chattanooga.

Officers and Executive Committee

Jim Hill
Board Chair
Chair, Tennessee Education Lottery Board


John F. Germ

Board Vice Chair
President/CEO, Campbell & Associates, Inc.

Roger Dickson

Board Secretary
Partner, Miller & Martin

H. Grant Law, Jr.
Board Treasurer
Community volunteer

Dr. Jane W. Harbaugh

Associate Provost for Undergraduate & Special Programs (retired)

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga


Ellen Hays
Community volunteer

Ruth S. Holmberg

Immediate Past Chair
Publisher Emeritus, Chattanooga Times


Board Members

Domina Coleman Alford
Accounting Manager
Hamilton County General Government

Robert O. Best
Chief Operating Officer
Unum US


Kitty Caldwell
Community volunteer

Mary Jo Clark

Vice President, Tennessee PTA
Executive Board, Hamilton County Council of PTAs


Michael Cranford

President
Boys & Girls Club of Chattanooga, Inc.

Tom Kinser

CEO Emeritus
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

Candy Kruesi
Community volunteer

Robert H. Siskin

President
R. H. Siskin and Associates

PEF is a local non-profit dedicated to improving student achievement in Hamilton County Schools Get Involved

“Due to the funds that were provided… …for us by the Benwood Initiative, we’ve been able to provide some of the best research-based workshops for our teachers to implement reading strategies in the classroom, and we’ve established a literacy block which is two hours per day, every day, for all of our students.”
Marthel Young
Principal,
Orchard Knob Elementary