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Emma Lee Bennett, 84Holley Gamble Funeral Home, Clinton

Peggy Alder Stuart, 94Martin Funeral Home, Oak Ridge

Judy Dake Fritts, 78Holley Gamble Funeral Home, Clinton

Brenda Lee McMillan, 59Weatherford Mortuary, Oak Ridge

Joyce Ann Crisp Carringer, 84Weatherford Mortuary, Oak Ridge

Roy L. “Bad Boy” Gray, 65Weatherford Funeral Home, Oak Ridge

Eunice Armstrong, 86Holley Gamble Funeral Home, Clinton

Paul Terry Shepherd, 67Holley Gamble Funeral Home, Clinton

Steven W. Wiley, 68Martin Funeral Home, Oak Ridge

Amy Brooks has been appointed as the new executive director of Knoxville-Knox County Planning by Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon and Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs. The joint appointment by the two mayors is the result of a change in state law.

Brooks is a 14-year veteran of the department who has served as interim director since the resignation of Gerald Green in July 2020.

Brooks is a member of the American Institute for Certified Planners, a nationally Certified Public Manager, a graduate of East Tennessee Regional Leadership and is currently serving as treasurer for the Tennessee chapter of the American Planning Association.

She earned a master’s degree in urban and regional planning with an emphasis on transportation and land use planning from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a bachelor’s in environmental studies and political science from Maryville College.