Kim Baker began work with the Gallatin Area Chamber of Commerce in November 2013 and was named CEO in February 2015.

Calling Gallatin home since 2000, Kim is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University where she received a Bachelor's Degree in Organizational Communication as well as University of Tennessee Center for Industrial Services, where she obtained her Tennessee Certified Economic Developer (TCEcD) designation. Additionally, Kim completed the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce Executives Institute as well as four years of U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute, obtaining the designation “IOM”.

Kim is a graduate of the Leadership Sumner program, currently serves as a co-director for the Leadership Sumner Youth program, and on the board for the adult program. Additionally, Kim serves as a board member for Recovery Court as well as on the committee for the Sumner County Work Release Program. Kim considers herself to be a lifelong learner, valuing the importance of education in our community, and enjoys serving on the Volunteer State Community College Foundation’s Annual Educate a Woman luncheon planning committee as well as on the Career and Technical Education Advisory Panels at her alma mater, Gallatin High School, as well as Station Camp High School.

Kim and the Chamber are one of founding partners of StartUp Gallatin, a program focused on helping local entrepreneurs realize their dreams and equipping them with the tools, resources, and connections to do so. She currently serves as the lead facilitator for the program.

Prior to joining the Chamber team, Kim spent many years in the service industry tending bar as well as working as a nanny for local families. Because of this, Kim still enjoys free-lance bartending and working with children. Sometimes, you can find her and her husband serving as “local celebrity” bartenders at fundraisers where they donate their time and she considers some of her best days when she’s invited to read to local kiddos!

Kim is a Wonder Woman enthusiast (you won’t ever see the two of them at the same time – think about that), has a niche for event planning, and is passionate about small business as well as local growth and development. When Kim is not spreading the local love around Gallatin, she enjoys spending time just about anywhere with her husband, Ryan, middle schooler bonus son, Hayden, and toddler daughter, Annlyn Graham. Add their wild hound dog, Georgia, to the mix, and you can officially say Gallatin, Tennessee has a circus!

Zena Rodgers Parks began work with the Gallatin Area Chamber of Commerce in February 2007 as Assistant Director and was named Chief Operating Officer in November 2014. She celebrated her 12^th year with the Chamber in 2019. Before coming to the Gallatin Chamber, Zena worked in the Optometry field as an Optometric Assistant and Administrative Assistant for over 20 years. She was also licensed in health, life, property and casualty insurance.

Zena is a lifelong resident of Gallatin, contributing a wealth of knowledge of the community to the Chamber and its visitors. She attended Middle Tennessee State University where she studied Business Administration. Zena completed her training in the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce Executives Institute in March of 2009 and continues to attend continuing education courses throughout the year.

She has served as Vice President of Historic Cragfont and on the Board of Directors for the Friends of the Gallatin Downtown Library. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Greater Gallatin, Inc. Zena was also active in the Junior Service League of Gallatin where she served on the Fundraising committee, the Board of Directors, as Secretary and President in 2009-2010. In 2007 she won the Junior Service League's President's Award.

In addition to her community involvement, Zena is quite the craftsman with her fabulously designed jewelry pieces created by hand and inspired by her nieces, Ella and Grace. She enjoys attending live sporting events as well as a variety of musical performances in and around the Nashville area. Zena loves to travel and is always looking forward to her next adventure.

Debby Haddock has been with the Chamber since the summer of 2010.  As Director of Sales her main responsibility is handling the advertising sales for the annual Chamber publication, as well as membership and sponsorship sales.

Although a native of the Pittsburgh, PA, area, Debby lived in New Orleans for over 35 years and considers herself a true Southerner at heart—after all, her mother was from Texas.  Debby and her family moved to Gallatin from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.  She has been a Jazzercise Franchised Instructor since 1989 and owned two Jazzercise locations employing seven other instructors in the New Orleans area before moving here.  She still teaches Jazzercise in Gallatin for a local Franchisee.  Because of being a self-employed small business owner herself, Debby is able to understand the challenges many of our local business owners tackle to achieve success, especially advertising and marketing.

Debby and her family embraced Gallatin with a passion and feel very much at home here.  The people, the beauty, and the lifestyle of Gallatin certainly made it easy to fall in love with Tennessee!

Debby’s husband, Doug, is a pharmaceutical sales representative.  They have two grown sons, Alexander (and his wife named Angie) and Holden, who live in the area. Alexander and Angie had a baby boy named Charlie in November 2018, so Debby can add “Grandma” to her resume.  She is also very proud of the fact that both of her sons are Eagle Scouts.  Her hobbies include making pearl jewelry, traveling, and spending time with family—especially at our local restaurants.

Lindsay McMillan Morrison has been a part of the Chamber team since November 2018, serving as the Marketing and Program Coordinator.

Lindsay came to the Chamber with an educational background in design, holding a Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design from the International Academy of Design and Technology, as well as years of experience working with several local non-profit organizations including United Way of Sumner County, Literacy Council of Middle Tennessee, Historic Rock Castle, Salvus Center, Decisions, Choices & Options, H.A.T.S., and God, Guys, & Gears. 

In addition to her experience helping non-profits organize fundraisers and signature events, Lindsay has dabbled into entrepreneurship herself, with a business focused on wedding and special event planning. Through many years of developing her own event business, she is able to add both her passion for community and niche for the logistics of event planning to our Chamber programming.

Lindsay completed the first year of Tennessee Chamber of Commerce Executives Institute in March 2019 with plans to finish in 2020. Additionally, Lindsay serves on the planning committee for Volunteer State Community College Foundation’s annual Swine to Dine fundraiser, as well as the Group Coordinator for Gallatin’s young professionals’ group, Gallatin Emerging Talent.

As a native to Gallatin, Lindsay comes from a large family of which most call Gallatin and/or Sumner County home as well. When not at the Chamber or helping someone produce a signature event, she can be found cheering on Auburn, testing new recipes in the kitchen, listening to podcasts of all kinds, or enjoying a good Pilates class. Above all else, Lindsay enjoys spending time with her husband, James, and indulging in girly dates with her daughter, Emery. 

Angela is the smiling face you see when you walk into the Chamber office. 

After spending 27 years in Air Force life and being lucky enough to travel the world, Angela and her family decided to settle down in Gallatin in 2016. This transition was the first time Angela ever planted real roots for anywhere longer than 4 years so they had to pick a good place she says! The strong sense of community, along with the beautiful landscapes, amazing schools, and the small-town charm, were the main reasons they chose Gallatin. 

She attended both Penn State University and the University of South Carolina where she studied Mass Communication. Additionally, Angela completed the first year of Tennessee Chamber of Commerce Executives Institute in March 2019 with plans to finish in 2020. 

Prior to joining the Chamber team, Angela launched her own business, Anderson Lane Photography, capturing special life moments for her clients. 

With a background in photography and marketing, her role as the Chamber’s Member Experience Assistant is to make sure we are getting your businesses news and events out into the community to reach as many people as possible. She’s also there to help you with the ins and outs of navigating your Chamber membership.

When Angela isn’t helping our members at the Chamber, she can be found cheering on Super Bowl Champions, the Philadelphia Eagles as well as spending time with her husband Gary while attempting to capture and photograph precious memories for their children Aiden, Brady, and Isabella and spending far too much money at Target (unless her husband is reading this; in that case, she just strolls around looking at things).

Addie Lange started with the Chamber as an intern for her Senior Project at Station Camp High School during the fall semester of 2018. It didn’t take long for Addie to fall in love with working in the Gallatin community and doing everything she could to help promote local events and businesses throughout the area. She even went so far as to play “Addie the Elf” during the holidays to help promote shopping local in Gallatin.

Addie completed her internship and was excited to come on board as our new Marketing & Event Assistant at the Gallatin Chamber.

When Addie has time off from the Chamber, you can probably find her on the softball field. Addie is an avid softball player, and in 2018 was voted all-state catcher for Sumner County.  Addie is currently finishing up her senior year of high school, and will attend Volunteer State Community College in the fall of 2019, where she is committed to play softball with the Lady Pioneers Softball team.