Tammy Zimmerman, President/CEO of Payment Plus, has been elected to serve as the 2017 Chair of the Board for the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce. Bruce Wilcox, President of Henry A. Petter Supply Company, LLC, who served as Chair in 2016 will serve as Immediate Past Chair. Leon Owens, Chief Operating Officer with Swift & Staley, has been elected as Chair-elect.       

Zimmerman’s term begins on January 1 but the gavel will officially be passed to her at the Chamber’s Annual Meeting and Business Celebration on January 27 to be held at the Julian Carroll Convention Center.   

Zimmerman is Founder/CEO of Payment Plus, Inc. a payment processing provider based in Paducah. Before founding Payment Plus, she was a founding member of a NYSE publically traded company, NOVA Information Systems, Inc., (now Elavon) in Atlanta, GA. She has been active with the Paducah Chamber for several years and most recently chaired the Annual Membership Campaign, which pushed the Chamber membership total to record heights. Zimmerman also serves as a board member of Baptist Health Paducah Hospital and Baptist Health Paducah Foundation, is a past co-chair of the Elavon Advisory Council and served in an Emeritus role. She holds a certified John Maxwell Speaker and Coaching certification. She is a graduate of the University of Louisville. 

In addition to Zimmerman, Wilcox and Owens, other members of the Chamber’s 2017 Executive Committee include:  Daniel Jones, Strawberry Hills Pharmacy, Vice Chair; Sheila Barger, Marquette Transportation, Treasurer; Cory Hicks, Fluor, Vice Chair of Business Advocacy; Jim Dudley, KeeFORCE, Vice Chair of Membership and Marketing; Sonny Smith, Attorney with McMurry & Livingston, PLLC, Vice Chair of Education and Workforce; and Sandra Wilson, President, Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce.

New Board members are: Andy Carloss, Midtown Market; Terri Lundberg, Lundberg Medical Imaging; and Shawn Washer, HDR Engineering.

Continuing Board members are: Chad Beyer, i5 design group; Tony Copeland, Arkema; Stan Eckenberg, CSI and representing Paducah Economic Development; Danny Evitts, Independence Bank; Barry Hatcher, Kemper CPA Group; Mardie Herndon, Paducah Bank; Mike Karnes, Williams, Williams and Lentz; Mike Lawson, MP Lawson Construction; Dona Rains, Baptist Health Paducah; Craig Rice, Atmos; Bill Robertson, Paducah Water; David Simon, CSI; and Greg Thompson, The Orthopaedic Institute. 

Ex-officio Board members are:  McCracken County Judge Executive Bob Leeper; Paducah Mayor Brandi Harless; Quin Sutton, McCracken County Schools; Donald Shively, Paducah Independent Schools; Dr. Anton Reece, West Kentucky Community Technical College; Dr. Brian Van Horn, Murray State University; and Scott Darnell, Paducah Economic Development.