Missy Marshall
Missy Marshall serves as Executive Director of Keep Tennessee Beautiful (KTnB). In this position she provides direction, management, and supervision for KTnB staff, leadership to 32 Keep America Beautiful (KAB) affiliates and a 21-member citizen advisory board appointed by the Governor.
Since joining KTnB in July 2013, Marshall has led the team to receive national awards from KAB: 2013 – 2018 Diamond Level State Affiliate Recognition Awards, and 2014 Best Statewide Promotion of the Great American Cleanup. She was the recipient of the 2015 Alma Bucovaz Urban Service Award – an honor given by the University College of the University of Memphis.
During Marshall’s tenure, March has been recognized as “Keep Tennessee Beautiful Month” by the Governor. Marshall has gained seven new KAB affiliates and has been instrumental in establishing fruitful partnerships with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), former University of Tennessee football coach, Phillip Fulmer, 2013 CNN Hero of the Year Chad Pregracke, and Guy Gilchrist, cartoonist of Nancy and Sluggo. The success of these partnerships have resulted in effective projects that further the KTnB mission to inspire and educate people to take action every day to improve and beautify their community environment.
Marshall came to KTnB with over 20 years of experience in public service. She began her career in state government as a public health educator for the Tennessee Department of Health.
Over the course of her career, Marshall has held several executive positions, serving as legislative liaison for eight state departments, nine commissioners and on the team of three Governors.
During her state tenure, Marshall has had the distinct honor to serve on the legislative team that assisted the legislature with establishing the Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (DIDD).
Prior to her appointment at KTnB, Marshall served nine years as Director of Communications and External Affairs for the Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Development Disabilities (DIDD).
A Maryville native, she received a bachelor of science in communication from Middle Tennessee State University, where she focused on public relations and minored in business administration. She is also a graduate of LEAD Tennessee, the state government’s premier leadership training initiative. Marshall is a member of the Keep America Beautiful Board of Directors, the Advisory Board for Shelby Residential Vocational Services, the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame Board of Directors and she serves as an Alderman for the town of Collierville. She lives in Collierville, Tennessee with her husband Barry. They enjoy spending time boating and traveling with their children Alex, Blake, Addy and Barrett.