The TVC Corridor Champion Award

Corridor Champion Award

The TVC awards The Corridor Champion Award to an individual or organization who has demonstrated extraordinary leadership advancing the objectives of the TVC through enhanced national visibility, contributing to economic development, developing advanced technology and promoting collaborative efforts.

Former Corridor Champion Award Winners Include:

2024:
Mark Gradkowski, Edgewater Federal Solutions/TVC Board Chair
2022: 
Bill Tindal, Consolidated Nuclear Security/Y-12 National Security Complex 
 
2021:

Lonnie Lawson, The Center for Rural Development
John Morris, ClearPath Ventures

2020:

Congressman Phil Roe

2019:

TVC Community College Consortium
Darrell Akins, Executive Manager, Tennessee Valley Corridor
Dr. Phil Oldham, President, Tennessee Tech University

2018:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Former Tennessee U.S. Senator Bob Corker
Roane State Community College and President Chris Whaley
Lynn Freeny, DOE Photographer
2017:
Steve Cope, director of Marketing and Public Relations, Avion Solutions, former chairman of the TVC
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
2016:
J. Wayne Cropp, Baker, Donelson, Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
Appalachian Regional Commission and ARC Federal Co-Chair Earl Gohl
2015:
Mike Arms, Partner of Tennessee Strategies and TVC Board Member
Eastman Chemical Company
2014:
Helen Hardin, Senior Policy Advisory for Congressman Chuck Fleischmann
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
2013:
Tennessee Congressman Chuck Fleischmann
Tennessee Valley Authority
The University of Tennessee
Y-12 National Security Complex
2012:
Gerald Boyd, former manager of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site Office and former Chairman of the TVC
2011:
Former Tennessee Congressman Bart Gordon
2010:
Former Tennessee U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander
2009:
Tom Rogers, Director of Industrial and Economic Development Partnerships, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and former Chairman of the TVC
2008:
Former Alabama Congressman Bud Cramer
2007:
Anne Pope, Former Co-Chair, Appalachian Regional Commission
Susan Reid, executive director, First Tennessee Development District and former chairman of the TVC
2006:
Bill Baxter, former chairman of TVA and Commissioner of Economic Development for the State of Tennessee
2005:
Tom Ballard, former Vice President for Public and Governmental Relations for the University of Tennessee and former chairman of the TVC
2004:
Former Tennessee Congressman Zach Wam