Meet Our Team

Blount Mansion

Our Team

A nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to preserving Blount Mansion National Historic Landmark, and inspiring an appreciation of national, state, and local history through the site and the lives of those who lived and worked there.

David Hearnes

Executive Director

Rose Steele

Director of Development

Susan Martin

Board President 

John McCarty

Treasurer

Dean Burress

President Elect

Board Members

Brian Pitmann

Board Member

Dr. Chriss Magra

Board Member

Cole Wheeler

Board Member

Debby Schriver

Board Member

Debbie Woodiel

Board Member

Heather Fawver

Board Member

Miriam B. Beatty

Board Member

Nicole Leverton

Board Member

Sam Pittenger

Board Member

Sara Phillips

Board Member

Stacy Olfe

Board Member

Terri Wheeler

Board Member

Advisory Members

Dean Rice

Advisor

Dan Brown

Advisor

Dr. Warren Dockter

Advisor

Blount mansion

About

Circa-1792 Blount Mansion was home to U. S. Constitution signer William Blount, appointed by President George Washington to govern the Southwest Territory, which Blount shepherded into admission to the union as our nation’s sixteenth state, Tennessee.

Oldest Museum in Knoxville

In addition to a family home, this fine wood frame dwelling also served as the territorial capital. Blount Mansion is Knoxville, Tennessee’s only National Historic Landmark and the city’s oldest operating museum, opening in 1926.