The Rotary Club of Knoxville board of directors for 2025-26 are, left to right, (front row) Chris Lambert and Shannon Holland, (second row) Whitfield Addicks and Ken Knight, (third row) Rachel Ford, Andrew Murr and Sharon Hudson, (fourth row) Virginia Babb, Brent Midyett, Todd Moody and Dave Freeman, and (back row) Susan Dakak.
At its December 10 meeting, the Rotary Club of Knoxville elected its 2025-26 board of directors, to be led by Shannon Holland, an attorney with Holland Law. The board begins its term on July 1, 2025.
Ken Knight, general manager of the Crowne Plaza Knoxville, will serve as vice president. Rachel Ford, chief executive officer of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, will be president-elect. Andrew Murr, vice president at Barge Design Solutions, will remain as club secretary and F. Whitfield Addicks, partner at Addicks CPA Firm LLP, will remain as treasurer and chair of the financial and audit committee. Outgoing president Christopher Lambert, a wealth advisor and partner with Clarity Wealth Partners of UBS Financial Services, will serve as representative of past presidents.
The other 2025-26 board members are Virginia Babb, a realtor with Keller Williams Signature; Susan Dakak, president of Smart Views, LLC; Dave Freeman, director of Capital Resource Partners, Inc.; Sharon Hudson, executive director of the American Red Cross, East Tennessee Chapter; Brent Midyett, vice president of DFA Solutions; and Todd Moody, an attorney with Hagood Moody Hodge PLC.
Founded in 1915, the Rotary Club of Knoxville is among the oldest and largest Rotary Clubs in Tennessee. Club members were instrumental in the formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and currently sponsor several park projects. The club is also the steward of the Rotary Foundation of Knoxville, which funds college scholarships and special projects.
Rotary International, the world’s first service club, was started in Chicago in 1905. More than 1.4 million members in more than 35,000 clubs in 200 countries volunteer their time and talent to further the Rotary motto “Service Above Self.” Clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds. Rotary’s signature initiative is the eradication of polio worldwide. Since 1985, the number of cases has decreased by 99.9% and the number of nations in which polio is endemic has shrunk to two, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Rotary is the world’s largest private source of college scholarships. Each year the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International helps more than 1,000 students to study abroad and serve as cultural ambassadors. Rotary also partners with seven prestigious universities around the world to provide opportunities to earn a master’s degree in peace and conflict resolution.