{"id":39456,"date":"2020-04-30T17:33:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/?p=39456"},"modified":"2020-05-19T16:36:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:36:19","slug":"odom-retires-from-sctc-after-39-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/2020\/04\/odom-retires-from-sctc-after-39-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Odom retires from SCTC after 39 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7nxUhUyq.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-39458 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7nxUhUyq-533x800.jpeg\" alt=\"Dan Odom\" width=\"340\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7nxUhUyq-533x800.jpeg 533w, https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7nxUhUyq-226x340.jpeg 226w, https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7nxUhUyq.jpeg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>After 39 years, Assistant Chief Executive Officer Dan Odom announced he will retire from SCTC at the end of the month. With that announcement, he also will step down from the Tennessee Broadband Association board of directors where he served for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDan\u2019s knowledge of SCTC and the entire telecommunications industry will be greatly missed,\u201d says Bill Franklin, SCTC CEO \u201cAt the same time, we are very happy for him and wish him the very best in this next stage of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TNBA Executive Director Levoy Knowles said Odom\u2019s wisdom and guidance has been instrumental in moving the association forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDan has provided great leadership for the Tennessee Broadband Association since he first joined the board in 1999,\u201d says TNBA Executive Director Levoy Knowles. \u201cHe brought a wealth of industry knowledge to the board and will be dearly missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Odom graduated from Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville in 1981. Afterwards, he launched his career at SCTC in Gate City, Virginia. In that time he has had multiple positions: accountant, controller, office manager, administrative manager, chief financial officer and assistant chief executive officer.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his roles at SCTC and TNBA, Odom served on other boards including Virginia Telecommunications Industry Association (VTIA), Carolina Virginias Assoc. of RUS Telephone Accountants and Scott County Chamber of Commerce. He has served as president of each of these boards.<\/p>\n<p>Odom also served as supervisory committee chairperson of ElecTel Cooperative Credit Union. He is an active member of Orebank Missionary Baptist Church in Kingsport, where he is the music director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish Dan the very best in his future endeavors,\u201d Knowles says. \u201cHis extensive knowledge and guidance will be difficult to replace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 39 years, Assistant Chief Executive Officer Dan Odom announced he will retire from SCTC at the end of the month. With that announcement, he also will step down from the Tennessee Broadband Association board of directors where he served for more than 20 years. \u201cDan\u2019s knowledge of SCTC and the entire telecommunications industry will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennesseebroadband.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}