Board Members

Occupation: Facility Maintenance Team Leader at Aisin Automotive Castings of Tennessee in Clinton.

Background:  Fire Fighter/EMT, Captain at Karns Fire Department (12 years), Volunteer at Knox County Rescue (3 years), Reserve Fire Fighter/EMT Rural Metro Fire Department (2 years)

Interests:  Photography, Baseball Coach, woodworking, enjoying outdoors, and kayaking
Family: married 20 years to Jill, father of 2, Avery and Zander.

Tommy White is a retired Fire Marshal for the City of Sevierville after 30+ years in Emergency Service. Tommy started working for the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office and in 1986 Tommy went to work for the Sevierville Police Department. In 1988 Tommy also joined the Sevierville/Sevier Volunteer Fire Department where he was part of the City of Sevierville’s Hazmat team.

In 1997 Tommy transferred to the City of Sevierville Fire Department as the Fire Inspector and was later promoted to Fire Marshal until his retirement in 2016. Tommy now owns his own Construction Company.

Julia McKee is a retired Supervisory Special Agent and Security Manager with the Tennessee Office of Homeland Security, from Jan 2005 until Oct 2024.  She began her career in law enforcement in 1986 when she joined the United State Air Force (USAF) as a military police officer at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. In 1990, Julia became a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. In 1997, Julia entered the USAF Reserves continuing as a special agent and became in independent contractor for federal agencies under her own investigative services company conducting background investigations for personnel needing government security clearances until she retired from the reserves in 2011.

In 2005, Julia joined the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security as the State Security manager assigned to establishing a security program for personnel and facilities. In 2007, she was promoted to regional advisor and then in 2008, Senior Regional Advisor. With public safety as a primary objective, some of her duties included critical infrastructure protection, training of both public and private sector partners and citizens and maintaining a good working relationship with first responders. Julia also serves as a liaison with local, state and federal partners supporting information sharing and served on the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force for 18 months. In 2021, Julia was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent for the middle region of Tennessee. In May 2022, Julia accepted the Supervisory Special Agent position for east Tennessee where she chose to retire in Oct 2024.

Julia Graduated from Trevecca University in 2014 with a bachelor’s in management and human relations.