Executive Team

WDA is organized as a 501c(3) non-profit corporation governed by operational leadership reporting to a Board of Directors who are charged with oversight.

WDA’s Board of Directors is made up of an Executive Committee and three subcommittees that meet prior to board meetings, discuss agenda items and arrive at motions to be presented in the area of their committee responsibility. Executive committee members are the chairmen of the three subcommittees: Finance Committee, Management and Personnel Committee, and Ministry Committee.

The members are elected for three-year terms, and a new class is elected each year.

WDA Board of Directors

Dr. Carroll Coakley
Knoxville, Tennessee
Professor Emeritus and faculty advisor at the University of Tennessee

Robert D. Dukes
Fayetteville, Georgia
President & Executive Director of WDA

Ross Greene (Board Chairman)
Peachtree City, Georgia
President of Greene Consulting Associates, LLC

Darrell Hardister (Member Emeritus)
Titusville, Florida
Independent insurance agent (retired)

Daniel Horne
Watkinsville, Georgia
Account executive for Smith-Boley-Brown Inc.

Woody Johnson
Fayetteville Georgia
Real Estate Developer, Southeast Properties

Mary Lynn Kirby
Fayetteville Georgia
Attorney at Law: Kirby, Palmer, Farrell, Nix

Ralph Lehman
Knoxville, Tennessee
An Associate of Councilmark Asset Management.

Dr. Joyce Webb
Stockbridge, Georgia
Clinical psychologist
Founding partner of Keystone Counseling Center