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Lebanon Tourist & Convention Commission
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Brad Lanham represents the Lebanon-Marion County Chamber of Commerce. His current term expires in 2012.
David Winebrenner Jr., CPCU, has been in the financial services business since graduating from the University of Louisville School of Business in 1989. He works with families, businesses and individuals in building long-term wealth. He also has a background in insurance and risk management to assist in the protection of client assets and holds the Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter designation.
Winebrenner has taken an active role in Lebanon as Marion County Chamber of Commerce past president, St. Augustine Finance Council past chair, past member of the Lebanon/Marion County Board of Economic Development, Lebanon/Marion County Rotary Club past president and Lebanon’s Knights of Columbus Council past Grand Knight.
He has been married to his wife Hope for 19 years, they have four children - Jonah, Caleb, Anna and Elijah – and he is an avid golfer with his family and enjoys swimming for exercise.
Winebrenner represents a mayoral at-large pick has been with the LTCC since 2007. His current term expires in 2013.
Nancy Higdon has taught school at St. Augustine Grade School for the past 22 years. She graduated from Western Kentucky University with a bachelor’s degree in education and earned a master’s degree in learning disabilities from the University of Louisville
Higdon is married to Freddie Higdon and has three children - Ashley, Matthew and Scott. She represents the Lebanon Hotel/Motel Association and has been with the LTCC since it was created in 2003. Her current term expires in 2013.
Carlotta Brussell is the director of human resources for St. Catharine College. She was a member of the National Tri-County SHRM 1999 – 2005 and was its president for four years.
Brussell’s civic activities include work with Marion County Ham Days, Leadership Lebanon and St. Augustine Parish Council.
She represents the Lebanon Hotel/Motel Association and she has been with the LTCC since 2005. She served as its chair from 2006-2008, 2010-2011 and her current term expires in 2014.
Tom Lund is the executive director of the Marion County Office of Economic Development. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism in 1968 with minors in speech and economics from the University of Colorado. He also graduated from the University of Oklahoma's Industrial Development Institute in 1974 and studied the principals of real estate at the College of Southwest, completed the U.S. Bank of Oregon’s Financial Management and Control of the Small Business Seminar in 1977 and the Kentucky Development Council’s Basic Development Course in 1993.
He has been honored with New Mexico's First Award for innovation in economic development, the American Economic Development Council's "Best of Class" Award for Design of Sales Literature and Kentucky's Economic Development Professional of the Year Award.
His civic activities include work with the Spring View Medical Center board of trustees, Lebanon Aquatic Center board of directors, Marion Adjustment Center board of trustees. He has also been a member of New Mexico Industrial Development Executives Association (president 1974-75), American Economic Development Council Inc., Industrial Development Research Council, Kentucky Industrial Development Council, Kentucky Industrial Development Council board of directors, Southern Industrial Development Council and Central Kentucky Development Roundtable.
Lund represents the Lebanon Hotel/Motel Association and has been with the LTCC since it was created in 2003. He served as its chair from 2004-2005. His current term expires in 2013.
Dennis George is a 1972 graduate of Marion County High School and 1976 graduate of the University of Kentucky with a major in business administration. He worked for B&H Distributing Company from 1975-1985 then developed the business plan to acquire a Coors franchise in 1983, sold the business to Clark Distributing in 1985 and became branch manager.
George is former president of the Kentucky Beer Wholesalers Association and owned Resource Recycling in Lebanon from 1980-1991. He was a member of Lebanon City Council for 17 years and worked through the Council to develop curbside arecycling program in Lebanon.
George is a former basketball coach at Marion County High School, Washington County High School and St. Augustine Grade School.
He is married to Janet Anderson George and has three children - Carol George Mudd, Alan George and Gloria George.
George is a mayorial at-large representative. His current term expires in 2012.
Nicky Reynolds of Oak Ridge, Tennessee is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she majored in communication.
Before becoming the executive director of the Lebanon Tourist & Convention Conmmission, Reynolds was the director of communications for the Oak Ridge Convention and Visitors Bureau. Prior to that, she worked for the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development and the Chattanooga Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Carla Wagner was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. but lived most of her youth in the Netherlands. She graduated from The Hogeschool for the Arts at Utrecht with a Bachelor of Arts degree in architectural design in 1994 and returned to live and work in Lebanon in 1999.
She has built the Saint Augustine Extended Care Program since 2003 and has worked for the City of Lebanon as Aquatics Programs Supervisor since 2008.
She has two sons, G.J. and Carl.
Wagner’s civic duties include the local Habitat for Humanity chapter, American Red Cross Disaster relief and UCC Annual Outreach Program. She is an active member of the St. Augustine Parish Council and has served as chair for the St. Augustine Turkey Social.
Wagner has been with the LTCC since Aug. 2010.
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