Staff & Board
David Garrett
Board Chair | Partner Cheatham, Palermo and Garrett Law
Tyler Borders
Chief Innovation Officer, Carnegie Darlet
Bryan Doleshel
Chair, Downtown Franklin Association | Chief Community Development Officer, Williamson, Inc.
Stephanie Farmer
Secretary | Vice President of Commercial Banking, ServisFirst Bank
Chris Knopf
Treasurer | Chief Financial Officer, Stansell Electric
David Hopkins
Regional President, First Citizens National Bank
Sondra Morris
Chair, Franklin Grove Estate & Gardens | Owner, RNM Management and Properties, LLC
Jennifer Parker
Chair, THE FRANKLIN THEATRE | CEO, Parker Haven Interiors
Ellen Smith
Philanthropist, H Laird Smith Foundation
Nancy Smith
Community Leader
Sydney Ball
Chair, Next Gen Advisory Board | Vice President of Business Development, NFP Executive Benefits
Jackie Alexander
Philanthropist
Stephanie Fletcher
Vice President of Private Wealth, Alliance Bernstein
Tracy Frist
Philanthropist
Kay Heller
Philanthropist
Jeff Ledbetter
Owner | Product Architect, Roundtable Software
William C. Scales, Jr.
Litigation Attorney, GSRM Law
Dr. Allen Sills
Neurosurgeon at Vanderbilt and Chief Medical Director of the NFL
Susan Whitaker
Former Tennessee Commissioner of Tourism
Shea Wood Turner
Vice President SBA Product Specialist, First Horizon
Ben Wheeler
Board Intern (Young Leadership Council)
John Denton
President
Duncan Knopf
Vice President
Evey Knopf
Secretary
Jackson Rowley
Treasurer
LAUREN WARD
ROB HEBERT
KIMBERLY ELDER
BECKY BAUER
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
RYAN MCKINNEY
ORGANIZATION CHAIR
JOHN BOND
DESIGN CHAIR
EMILY MARSHALL
BRIAN MOYER
BRYAN DOLESHEL
CHAIR, DOWNTOWN FRANKLIN ASSOCIATION | CHIEF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OFFICER, WILLIAMSON, INC
About Rick
County Historian
After many years in the classroom and as a school librarian, Rick Warwick now applies his energy to collecting the history of Williamson County. Considering himself a better gleaner of facts and tidbits of history than a writer, he has compiled a shelf of published works on Williamson County over the years. As publication chairman of the Williamson County Historical Society since 1990, he has published the annual journal, as well as projects of his own choosing. This body of work includes: Leiper’s Fork and Surrounding Communities (1999), Leiper’s Fork and Family Albums (2000), Historical Markers of Williamson County-A Pictorial Guide (1999), Williamson County-In Black & White-A Racial History (2000), Williamson County-Out There In The First District (2001), Meet Me At Chapman’s Pie Wagon (2002), Triune-Two Centuries at the Crossroads (2004), Williamson County-More Than A Good Place to Live (2005), Williamson County-The Civil Wars Revealed Through Letters, Diaries and Memoirs (2006), Freedom and Work in the Reconstruction Era: The Freedmen’s Bureau Labor Contracts of Williamson County (2006), Williamson County-Civil War Veterans-Their Reunions and Photographs (2007), Wish You Were Here—A Postcard Tour of Franklin & Williamson County (2007), and Williamson County & the Civil War—As Seen Through the Female Experience (2008), Portraits of Williamson County (2010), Historical Markers of Williamson County, Tennessee Revised (2010).
Rick graduated from Middle Tennessee State University (B.S. 1969 and MAT 1971). He served on the Tennessee Historical Commission from 2005 to 2015. He volunteers as historian for the Heritage Foundation of Franklin and Williamson County. In January 2017, the Williamson County Commission appointed him County Historian, replacing Mrs. Virginia McDaniel Bowman, who had served that post since 1972. He has served on the following boards: Heritage Foundation, Carter House, Carnton, African American Heritage Society of Franklin and Williamson County, and Franklin’s Charge.
Since 1975, Rick and his wife Elaine have lived in an 1831 cedar log home reconstructed on Warwick’s Knob off Southall Road. Since moving to Franklin in 1970, Rick has collected locally-made furniture and items related to Williamson County history with noted success. He has collected over 15,000 photographs related to Williamson County.
Debbie Shelton
1974 - 1976
Edwin LeJeune
1976-1978
Rudy Jordan
1978-1986
Mary Pearce
1986-2017