2026-2027 District 12-N Cabinet
Contact information for the following individuals can be found in the District 12N Directory provided to Club Presidents and Secretaries.
District Governor – DG Wayne Garland
1st Vice District Governor – VDG Connie Emmons
2nd Vice District Governor – VDG Doris Kaifa
Cabinet Secretary – Kathi Hofstad
Cabinet Treasurer – PDG Keltie Kerney
Immediate Past District Governor – PDG Nathanael Hughes
Global Action Team:
- Global Extension Team Coordinator – PDG Rich Wilson
- Global Leadership Team Coordinator – PDG Wendy Cain
- Global Membership Team Coordinator – PDG Ian Kirkpatrick
- Global Service Team Coordinators – PDG Nathanael Hughes
LCIF Coordinator – VDG Connie Emmons
Region 1 Chair – 2nd VDG Doris Kaifa
Zone A Chair – Kyler Kerney-Ellliot
- East TN State University – Elizabethton – Erwin – Johnson City Noon – Kingsport – Rogersville
Zone B Chair – Jacob Ball
- Bulls Gap – Dandridge – Greeneville – Morristown Cherokee – Morristown-Hamblen – Sevier County
- Leos: Jefferson County, Pigeon Forge
Region 2 Chair – 1st VDG Connie Emmons
Zone C Chair – Deborah Sylvia-Gardner
- Campbell County – Clinton – Norris – Oak Ridge – Oneida – Tazewell-New Tazewell – Union County
- Leos: Anderson County
Zone D Chair – Angela Faulkner
- Fountain City – Inskip – Karns – Knox County North – Knoxville East – Powell – West Knoxville
Zone E Chair – Tyler Hunsaker
- Farragut – Harriman – Kingston – Knox Tri-County – Loudon – Maryville – Sevierville – Tellico Village
Program and Activity Chairs
- Appalachian Miles for Smile – Don Abernathy
- Chaplain – PDG Ed Gibbons
- Constitution & By-Laws – PDG Chuck Bailey
- Contest & Awards – PDG Paulette Bailey
- Conventions
- District – PDG Keltie Kerney
- Multiple District/State – PDG Keltie Kerney (2028 Chair)
- International – VDG Connie Emmons
- Credentials – DG Wayne Garland/Kathi Hofstad
- Directory Editor – Kim Osborne
- District Administrator – Kim Osborne
- Disaster Relief – PDG Keltie Kerney
- District 12-N Charities, Inc. – VDG Doris Kaifa
- Childhood Cancer – Eileen Hillmuth
- Diabetes Awareness – Katie Hagood
- East Tennessee Lions Eye Bank – PDG Frank McCall, President
- Hearing and Speech Foundation, Inc. – Kathleen Dooley
- Leader Dogs for the Blind – VDG Connie Emmons
- Learning Ally – VACANT
- Lions Quest – VACANT
- Lions Volunteer Blind Industries – Trevor Southerland
- Tennessee School for the Blind – Joan Martin
- World Services for the Blind – Trevor Southerland
- District 12-N Reverse Raffle – PDG Keltie Kerney
- Environment – Ann Holbrooks
- Eyeglass Recycling – Harry Ennis
- Facebook – PDG Wendy Cain, PDG Rich Wilson, Cynthia Bridges, John Wills
- Financial Review – PDG Nathanael Hughes, PDG Ed Gibbons, Kathleen Dooley, DG Wayne Garland
- Hearing and Hearing Aids – Kathleen Dooley
- Honorary Committee – Past District Governors
- Hunger – Carol Bowling
- Information Technology – John Wills
- KAPA (Knox Area Project Access) – Gene Honeycutt
- KidSight Outreach District Coordinator – PDG Jim McFarland
- Area 1 Coordinator – PDG Ed Gibbons
- Area 2 Coordinator – Richard Walker
- Area 3 Coordinator – PDG Neal Vaughan
- Area 4 Coordinator – PCC Paulette Bailey
- LCIF – Connie Emmons
- Leo Clubs – Kyler Kerney-Elliott
- Marketing Communications & PR – Cynthia Bridges
- Melvin Jones Fellowships – VDG Connie Emmons
- News & Views Editor and Publisher – Kim Osborne
- Nominating Committee – PDG Ed Gibbons, PDG Millie Burke, and PDG Wendy Cain
- Peace Poster Contest – Kathi Hofstad
- Remote Area Medical – Kathi Hofstad and Ranee King
- Resolutions – State Committee – PDG Chuck Bailey
- Rules & Procedures – State Committee – PDG Chuck Bailey
- Tail Twister – Sarah Collins
- Trading Pins – Kyler Kerney-Elliott
- USA/Canada Lions Leadership Forum – PDG Rich Wilson
- Virginia Lindsey Leadership Award – PCC Tony Gross
- Vision Van Operations – PDG Jim McFarland
- Website – PDG Wendy Cain, Kim Osborne, John Wills, Cynthia Bridges
- White Cane – VDG Doris Kaifa