For immediate release: January 10, 2023

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta announces the appointments of Eric Fuller and Steven "Woody" Woodward to the Nashville Branch board of directors. Fuller was appointed by the Board of Governors and Woodward was appointed by the Atlanta board of directors. Both will serve three-year terms beginning January 1, 2023, and ending December 31, 2025.

Fuller is president and chief executive officer of U.S. Xpress Inc. in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is a board member of the American Trucking Associations and the Trucking Alliance. Fuller is a graduate of the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.

Woodward is president and chief executive officer of Kirkland's Inc. in Brentwood, Tennessee. He has served as chair for the American Heart Association's Nashville Heart Walk in 2021 and 2022 and is a member of the AHA Middle Tennessee Executive Leadership Team. Woodward is a graduate of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

The other directors of the Atlanta Fed's Nashville Branch are:

  • Thomas Zacharia (board chair), laboratory director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and president and CEO of UT-Battelle LLC in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (term expires December 31, 2024),
  • Leif M. Murphy, CEO of TeamHealth Holdings Inc. in Knoxville, Tennessee (term expires December 31, 2024),
  • Marshall E. Crawford Jr., president and CEO of the Housing Fund Inc. in Nashville, Tennessee (term expires December 1, 2023),
  • Amanda W. Hite, president of Smith Travel Research in Hendersonville, Tennessee (term expires December 31, 2024), and
  • Amanda Mathis, chief financial officer of Bridgestone Americas Inc. in Nashville, Tennessee (term expires December 31, 2023).

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta branch directors provide economic information from their industries and the branch territory to the district Bank's president and head office directors, who use the information in discussing monetary policy options and making discount rate recommendations. The Board of Governors appoints three of the Nashville Branch directors, and the Atlanta head office directors appoint four.