Executive Committee 2025-2027

President: Sarah Robbins
Executive Vice President: Elizabeth Jones
Recording Secretary: Bena DeVaney
Corresponding Secretary: Carol Beard
Treasurer: Lee Easterly

Garden Club of Lookout Mountain Standing Committee Chairmen

Civics & Parks: Elizabeth Jones & Natalie Huffaker
Conservation/NAL: Mary Leland Hutchison
Ex Officio, Parliamentarian, Nominating: Kim Strang
Floral Design: Angie Sutherland
Flower Guild: Boofie Crimmins
Horticulture: Molly Adams & Bena DeVaney
New Members: Jen Kline
Newsletter: Leland Wheland
Programs: Ginger Dutton & Laura Frederick
Ways & Means: Cathy Pettway, Cornele Thomas & Carlyn Voges

Current GCA Directors & Representatives:
Molly Adams, Zone IX Horticulture Committee, Vice-Chair for Native Plants, Propagation & Seed Share
Molly Adams, Zone IX Board of Associates Member
Camilla Burbank, Zone IX Board of Associates Member
Candy Killebrew, Zone IX Board of Associates Member

Garden Club of Lookout Mountain Committee Chairmen

Affiliate Liaison: Denise Taylor
Allocations: Amy Weeks
Hospitality: Sharron Jackson
Jane's Garden: Mary Leland Hutcheson & Renata Clark
Long Range Plannin: Elizabeth Jones
Membership Development/Admissions: Heather DeVaney
Social Media: Dawn Pettway
Trips: Lulu Brock & Nancy Glascock
Webmistress: Carlyn Voges
Yearbook: Susan Crimmins

Garden Club of America Special Committee Chairmen

Archives & History: Lolly Jones
Awards & Grants: Kim Strang
Bulletin: Virginia Polley
Club Administrator/Communications: Rachel Dobson
Flower Show: Angie Sutherland
Founders Fund: Greyson Brown
Garden History & Design: Susan Stein
Judging: Sharel Hooper
Partner for Plants/Weed Wrangle: Ferris Robinson
Photography: Dawn Pettway
Scholarship: Hazel Bell
Visiting Gardens: Heather DeVaney

All Special Committee Chairmen have corresponding representatives at the GCA Level.

Garden Club of Lookout Mountain Committees:

Allocations

Chairman: Amy Weeks
Nanette Brown
Sarah Fowler
Trish Foy
Margaret Anne Haley
Candy Killebrew
Susan Probasco

Awards

Chairman: Kim Strang

Civics Improvement

Chairman: Natalie Huffaker & Elizabeth Jones
Carol Beard
Kitty Caldwell
Carol Campbell
Mary Elizabeth COrey
Carolyn Doster
Connie Higgason
Susan Jensen
Susie McGinness
Marie Thatcher
Cindy Whitaker

Conservation/National Affairs & Legislation

Chairman: Mary Leland Hutchison
Andrea Crouch
Nini Davenport
Ann Epps
Haven Glascock
Kathleen Robinson
Julia Sanford

Finance

Chairman: Lee Easterly
Carol Beard
Bena DeVaney
Sharel Hooper
Elizabeth Jones
Elizabeth Martin
Cathy Pettway
Sarah Robbins
Kim Strang
Cornele Thomas
Carlyn Voges

Flower Guild

Chairman: Boofie Crimmins
Greyson Brown
Camilla Burbanks
Mellissa Campbell
Nancy Driver
Jane Ferguson
Julie Fisher
Carter Kay
Carol Siciliano

Flower Design

Chairman: Angie Sutherland
Kate Dilworth

Flower Show

Chairman: Angie Sutherland
Molly Adams
Boofie Crimmins
Bena DeVaney
Lee Easterly
Sharel Hooper
Natalie Huffaker
Mary Leland Hutchison
Elizabeth Jones
Dawn Pettway
Sarah Robbins

Garden History & Design

Co-Chairman: Susan Stein

Horticulture

Chairman: Molly Adams
Marion Campbell
Jarmin Johnston
Susan Maclellan
Denise Taylor
Karen Welborn
Janice Williams

Hospitality

Co-Chairmen: Sharron Jackson
Hazel Bell
Margaret Ann Bentley
Nanette Brown
Emily Brown
Nancy Glascock
Virginia Polley
Ferris Robinson
Susan Stein
Catherine Townsend
Amy Weeks

Jane’s Garden

Co-Chairmen: Mary Leland Hutchison & Renata Clark
Lulu Brock
Kate Forbes
Kay McKnight

New Members

Chairman: Jen Kline
Rachel Dobson
Mary Henley Perry
Marshall Persinger
Wendy Robinson
Kakhi Wakefield
Leland Wheland

Ways & Means

Co-Chairmen: Cathy Pettway, Cornele Thomas & Carlyn Voges
Rachel Dobson
Mary Henley Perry
Marshall Persinger
Wendy Robinson
Kakhi Wakefield
Leland Wheland

Christmas Party

Hostess: Sharron Jackson
Kelly Atkinson
Renata Clark
Tricia Cowart
Susan Crimmins
Susan Davenport
Kate Forbes
Ramona Glascock
Lizzer Graham
Jen Kline
Margaret Nelson
Lloyd Smith
Shelley Wright

Spring Luncheon

Hostess: Courtney Cobb
Coordinator: Clara Bryant
Meg Aiken
Kate Brock
Nancy Glascock
Lisa Govan
Virginia Ann Manson
May Mitchell
Lee Moore
Sarah Robbins
Julia Sanford
Gracie Shriner
Leslie Stout
Beth Stout

Past Presidents of
The Garden Club
of Lookout Mountain

Mrs. Lucius Mansfield* 1916-1919

Mrs. A. C. Willingham* 1919-1920

Mrs. Lucius Mansfield* 1920-1921

Mrs. Carl White* 1922-1923

Mrs. W. B. Miller* 1924-1925

Mrs. Chester Richmond* 1926-1927

Mrs. Morrow Chamberlain* 1927-1928

Mrs. E. H. McClure* 1929-1932

Mrs. J. P. Hoskins* 1932-1935

Mrs. Joseph W. Johnson* 1935-1936

Mrs. Alfred Thatcher* 1936-1937

Mrs. Joseph Burr* 1937-1938

Mrs. T. H. McClure* 1938-1939

Mrs. Mark Morrison* 1940-1941

Mrs. Edwin A. Bethel* 1942-1943

Mrs. A. C. Willingham* 1943-1944

Mrs. Charles D. Little* 1944-1946

Mrs. George R. West, Jr.* 1946-1950

Mrs. Murray Raney*1950-1952

Mrs. Harold Smartt*1952-1954

Mrs. Cecil Newell* 1954-1955

Mrs. Donald Munson* 1955-1956

Mrs. E. Y. Chapin, Jr.* 1957

Mrs. Robert S. Killebrew*1957-1958

Mrs. Halbert G. Law*1959-1960

Mrs. William D. Pettway* 1960-1962

Mrs. Will Harris* 1962-1964

Mrs. J. P. W. Brown* 1964-1966

Mrs. William McGinness* 1966-1968

Mrs. Richard H. Houck* 1968-1970

Mrs. Richard C. Thatcher, Jr.* 1970-1972

Mrs. W. Lane Verlenden* 1972-1974

Mrs. Donald M. Ferguson*1974-1975

Mrs. John B. Stout* 1975-1977

Mrs. Sydney McCabe* 1977-1978

Mrs. James C. Glascock* 1978-1979

Mrs. Joseph W. Thatcher* 1979-1981

Mrs. J. Ralston Wells* 1981-1982

Mrs. Phil B. Whitaker* 1982-1983

Mrs. Gordon L. Davenport* 1983-1984

Mrs. Robert M. Davenport* 1984-1985

Mrs. Henry T. Bryan, III 1985-1987

Mrs. B. Allen Casey, Jr.* 1987-1988

Mrs. C. Robert Clark 1988-1990

Mrs. Walter T. Forbes, Jr. 1990-1991

Mrs. Frank W. McDonald 1991-1992

Mrs. Daniel W. Oehmig* 1992-1993

Mrs. Joseph H. Davenport, III* 1993-1995

Mrs. John F. Killebrew 1995-1997

Mrs. Edward L. Mitchell 1997-1998

Mrs. David P. Phillips 1999-2001

Mrs. Lupton Avery 2001-2003

Ms. Nancy Deakins 2003-2005

Mrs. Walter S. Burbank 2005-2007

Mrs. Philip Whitaker, Jr 2007-2009

Mrs. Thomas H. Jones 2009-2010

Mrs. Mitchell Bell 2011-2013

Mrs. Andy Rittenberry 2013-2015

Mrs. Stokely E. Doster 2015-2017

Mrs. John W. Beard 2017-2019

Mrs. Mike Taylor 2019-2021

Mrs. James Hooper 2021-2023

Mrs. Ewing Strang 2023-2025