At its meeting on June 25, the Rotary Club of Knoxville installed its new board of directors and officers for the 2024–25 Rotary year. Christopher Lambert, a graduate of the University of Alabama, with Clarity Wealth Partners of UBS Financial Services is president and chair of the board, which began its term on July 1.

Jennifer Sepaniak, president of the Bill Kitt Trust Co., LLC, will serve as the Rotary Club vice-president. Attorney Shannon Holland, lead litigation counsel and managing attorney of Holland Law, is president-elect. Andrew Murr, a professional engineer and vice-president of Barge Design Solutions, will serve as the club secretary and F. Whitfield Addicks, CPA and partner at Addicks CPA Firm LLP, will remain as treasurer and chair of the Financial and Audit Committee. Outgoing President Jim Alexander, director at Acosta Sales and Marketing, will serve as the representative of past presidents.

Virginia Babb, a realtor with Keller Williams Signature, will serve as the director of recruitment, and Sally Boven, retired CEO of Reflective Apparel, will be the director of service. Holden Caperton, vice-president of procurement operations for First Horizon Bank, will serve as communications director. Susan Dakak, president of Smart Views, LLC, is the director for international service. Attorney Todd Moody, a partner at Hagood, Moody, Hodge PLC, is the director of local community service, and Annette Winston, a distinguished lecturer (ret.) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is the director of membership retention. 

Formed in 1915, the Rotary Club of Knoxville is among the oldest and largest Rotary Clubs in Tennessee and is the oldest and largest service organization in Knoxville. Club members were instrumental in the formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and currently sponsor a National Park project. The club is also the steward of the Rotary Foundation of Knoxville, which funds multiple local and international service projects, including college tuition scholarships for local high school graduates, numerous literacy and clean water projects, financial support of the opera, symphony, theater, art and photography and an annual Peace Award that recognizes those who promote harmony within our city.   

Rotary International, the world’s first service club, was started in Chicago in 1905 by four professionals and businessmen who wanted to serve their community. Now, more than 1.4 million Rotary members in more than 35,000 clubs in 200 countries volunteer their time and talents to further the Rotary motto of “Service Above Self.” Rotary Clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious and are open to all cultures, races and creeds, to do good in the world.