Council Members

The Council on Developmental Disabilities is made up of Governor-appointed private citizens who either have a disability or are family members of a person with a disability.  Council members represent the cultural and geographic diversity of Tennessee.  The Council also has representatives of State agencies that are connected with disability policy and services in the state.

• Tecia Puckett Pryor, Council Chair - Smithville
• Ryan Durham, Vice Chair - Lawrenceburg
  
• Lisa Johnson, Leadership Committee Chair - Greeneville
  
• Lesley Guilaran, Public Policy Committee Chair - Jackson
  
• Edward Mitchell, Communications Committee Chair - Jackson
  
• Alicia Hall, Audit Committee Chair - Cordova
  
• Alison Bynum - Smyrna
• Shontie Brown - Memphis
• Jody Cheek - Johnson City
  
• Roddey Coe - Ooltewah
• Jennifer Coleman - Paris
• Kezia Cox - Knoxville
• Sarah Cripps - Smithville
• Will Edwards - Knoxville
• Diamond Grigsby - Murfreesboro
• Chrissy Hood - Pulaski
  
• Clancey Hopper - Lebanon
  
• Brigham Scallion - Bells
  
• Brent Wiles - Nashville
  
• Martez Williams - Nashville

Commissioners/Representatives of State Government Departments and Agencies and their designees in parentheses

• Commissioner Brad Turner (Jordan Allen) Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
• Commissioner Penny Schwinn, (Alison Gauld) Department of Education
• Commissioner Clarence Carter, (Kevin Wright/Julie Johnson) Department of Human Services: Vocational Rehabilitation Services
• Commissioner Marie Williams, (Mark Liverman) Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
• Commissioner Lisa Piercey, (Jacqueline Johnson) Department of Health
• Assistant Commissioner Patti Killingsworth (Shannon Nehus) Bureau of TennCare
• Executive Director Richard Kennedy, (Russette Marcum-Embry) Commission on Children and Youth
• Executive Director Ralph Perrey, (Don Watt) Tennessee Housing Development Agency
• Executive Director James Dunn, Commission on Aging and Disability

University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities

Elise McMillan, J.D., Co-Director, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities

Bruce Keisling, Ph.D., Executive Director, UT Health Science Center for Developmental Disabilities

Protection and Advocacy Agency

Lisa Primm, Executive Director, Disability Rights Tennessee