Tennessee
Leadership Middle Tennessee Celebrates Class of 2024 Commencement
Leadership Middle Tennessee (LMT) celebrated the commencement of their Class of 2024 on Tuesday, June 18th at the Adventure Science Center.
The celebration was the culmination of an 11-month program where class members attended a session each month in one of 10 Middle Tennessee counties to gain a greater understanding of critical issues in the region, learning through interactive presentations, facilitated dialogue, behind-the scenes visits, and experiential adventures.
Each year, the class is composed of outstanding business and community leaders from the 10-county Middle Tennessee region, including Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Maury, Montgomery, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson, and Wilson counties.
The 2024 class members are listed below by county.
- Cheatham:
Bill Anderson, Nabholz Construction Corporation
Archibold Marowa, Hiscall Inc. - Davidson:
Gavin Baxter, JE Dunn Construction
Raquel Beck, Pinnacle Financial Partners
Paige Bernick, Lewis Thomason PC
Phillip Branch, Merrill Lynch
Suzannah Gills, Turner Construction Company
Harry Perret, The Oak Tree Advisors
Selina Staub, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Lindsay Youngbauer, Woodmont Investment Counsel - Dickson:
Stacey Levine, Healthy Parks Healthy Person
Sommer Pearson, Dickson Arts Council - Maury:
Wesley Bryant, Parks, Bryant, & Snyder PLLC
Michael Franks, TriStar Bank
Travis Growth, Maury County Chamber & Economic Alliance - Montgomery:
Curtis Glenn, Clarksville Police Department
Robert Huffman, Nova Technologies
Rylan Kean, Millan Enterprises LLC
Cheryl Lankford, Legends Bank
Erin Yow, Hilldale Christian Child Care Center - Robertson:
Mandy Christenson, White House Area Chamber of Commerce
Keifus Malone, Owens Corning
Adele Watts, The Springfield Woolen Mills/Southern States Construction - Rutherford:
Colleen Dudley, Habitat for Humanity of Tennessee
Charles Frazier, Law Offices of Charles R. Frazier
Chad Hill, Volunteer State Bank
Janet Kincherlow, Martin-Urban League of Middle Tennessee
Lori Williams, Middle Tennessee Electric - Sumner:
John Isbell, Sumner County Government
Wendy Navarro, Navarro Creative Group
Ray Tate, FirstBank
Jordan Woodruff, Cumberland Capital Partners - Williamson:
A.J. Bahou, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Kel McDowell, Williamson Inc.
Doris McMillan, New Hope Academy
Jennifer Shepard, InsBank
Kevin Townsel, City of Franklin - Wilson:
Chris Crowell, Liberty State Bank
Ray Render, The Office of Congressman John Rose
Lauren Smith, Charis Health Center
Courtney Wheeler, Cumberland University.
At Large: Heather Bay, Direct Flight Solutions LLC.
Members of the 2025 class will be announced in August.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – We’re experiencing our hottest weather since summer 2025.
The hottest weather of the year is having a major impact on Middle Tennesseans. Temperatures have soared well above average during the afternoon and remained unusually high at night for several days. That’s caused thousands across Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky to temporarily change the way they go about everyday life. The heat has been so significant that temperatures have actually been in record territory.
For example, this past Sunday, Nashville nearly tied the highest minimum temperature ever for the date — 80° set in 1936. Nashville’s low on Sunday was 79.
As for high temperatures, while it was easily the hottest day of the year on Tuesday, Nashville missed that day’s record by nine degrees.
We’ll be closer on Wednesday, missing it by just six degrees.
There’s an even closer approach in line for Thursday. Our forecast for Nashville is 98°. The record high temperature is 101.
Cooler weather will eventually take over. By early next week, we expect highs to return to more seasonable levels — the low 90s.
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Former Tennessee baseball pitcher Garrett Stallings was called up by the Milwaukee Brewers on June 30.
Stallings, 28, likely will make his major league debut against the Cincinnati Reds on June 30 in the second game of the Brewers’ four-game homestand.
Stallings played at Tennessee from 2017 to 2019 in the early years of Tony Vitello’s stint at the Vols’ head coach. He earned a starting role as a freshman and became the ace by his junior season.
In 2019, the Los Angeles Angels selected Stallings in the fifth round of the MLB draft. He bounced around in the minors before landing firmly in Triple-A with the Norfolk Tides, and later the Brewers’ affiliate Nashville Sounds, in 2024.
Stallings posted a 3-3 record with the Sounds in 2026 with a 3.45 ERA and 59 strikeouts in 62⅔ innings.
He will be the 54th player in Tennessee history to reach the major leagues and the 12th since 2020. He will join left-hander Garrett Crochet (2020); right-hander Ben Joyce (2023); infielder Andre Lipcius (2023); IF Trey Lipscomb (2024); outfielder Jordan Beck (2024); RHP Seth Halvorsen (2024); RHP Chase Dollander (2025); RHP Blade Tidwell (2025); INF Christian Moore (2025); OF Drew Gilbert (2025); and RHP Chad Dallas (2026).
Dallas made his debut for the Toronto Blue Jays on June 4.
Wynton Jackson covers high school sports for Knox News. Email: wynton.jackson@knoxnews.com
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