Assistant Republican Floor Leader, Tennessee State Senate

Senator, Tennessee State Senate, 2004-2008

Member, Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee of Government Operations Committee

Member: Senate Environment, Conservation and Tourism Committee

Senate Representative/Board Member, East Tennessee Development District

Member: Senate General Welfare, Health and Human Resources Committee

Member, Joint Government Operations Committee

Vice chairman, Select Joint Oversight Committee on TennCare

Vice chairman, Senate Government Operations Committee

Assistant Floor Leader, Senate Republican Caucus, Tennessee State Senate

Vice chairman, State and Local Government Subcommittee of Government Operations Committee

Director of Laboratories, Blount Memorial Hospital

Surgical Intern, City of Memphis, Tennessee Hospital

Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Blount Memorial Hospital

Anatomic/Clinical Pathology Resident, University of Tennessee Medical Center

Physician, retired

United States Public Health Service, 1965-1967

Cades Cove Protection Association, Advisory Board

Experience, American Association of Retired Persons

Experience, American Society of Clinical Pathologists (emeritus fellow: Fellow of the College of American Pathologists)

Friends of the Library, Blount County

Experience, Blount County Chamber of Commerce

Experience, Blount County Farm Bureau

Experience, Blount County Friends of the Library

Experience, Blount County Medical Society

Experience, Blount County Republican Executive Committee

Experience, Blount County Republican Women's Club

Experience, Blount County Right to Life

Experience, College of American Pathologists

Experience, Foothills Land Conservancy

Experience, Friends of Blount County Historical Museum

Experience, Friends of Tennessee Libraries Association

Experience, Friends of Tremont (Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont)

Experience, Friends of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Citizens for Community Improvement, Friendsville

Experience, Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce

Federal Bureau of Investigation Citizens Academy, Knoxville Division, Class Six, 2007 graduate

Friends of the Kodak Library, Kodak, Tennessee

Experience, Leadership Blount (Class of 2008)

Experience, Leadership Sevier (Class of 2006)

Experience, Little River Watershed Association

Experience, National Parks Conservation Association

Experience, National Rifle Association

Experience, Sevier County Farm Bureau

Experience, Sevier County Republican Women's Club

Experience, Sevier County Right to Life

Experience, Sevierville Chamber of Commerce

Experience, Sevierville Fraternal Order of Police (associate member)

Experience, Tennessee Eagle Forum

Civil Air Patrol, Tennessee Legislative Squadron, senior member (rank: Major)

Experience, Tennessee Medical Association (emeritus member)

Experience, Tennessee Republican Party

Sons of the Revolution, Tennessee Society

Experience, Tennessee Wildlife Federation

Heritage Foundation, The

Gideons International, The: Blount County North Camp (qualified as a church presenter)