About Chris Woodhull

Chris is a community leader who serves Knoxville both professionally and personally to make Knoxville a great place to live.

After growing up in an Air Force family and graduating from the University of North Carolina at Asheville, Chris founded TRIBE ONE (along with the late Danny Mayfield), an inner-city Christian ministry that encourages young men and women to get out of gangs and destructive lifestyles and into productive lives.

Just last year Chris’ ministry served more than 80 young people who chose a productive life over prison and death.

Chris’ professional experience and training provides him with the tools to be a problem solver and consensus builder on city council. He helps people find their own strengths. Chris has the desire and the knowledge to bring people together who may not be like-minded, to talk out their problems and come to solutions for the good of the whole community.

Family is most important to Chris. He has been married to native Knoxvillian Mary Lawrence Arnett Woodhull for 19 years. They – along with their two daughters Tess and Paris – live in a 110 year-old home in Mechanicsville, the heart of the area TRIBE ONE serves.

Chris’ background shows his leadership and interest in
serving Knoxville:

• Board member of Knox Children’s Fund
  
• Board member of his neighborhood association, The Old Mechanicsville Neighborhood Interest (OMNI)
  
• Board member of Midway Rehabilitation Center
  
• Community Advisory Board of the Junior League of Knoxville
  
• Presenter at 28^th Annual Conference on Neighborhood Concerns in Chattanooga
  
• Past board member and Chairman of Knoxville Project Change
  
• Conducts classes and workshops for the UT School of Law and the UT College of Social Work
  
• Classes in negotiation and entrepreneurship at Harvard and Yale
  
• Mediator with Community Mediation Center
  
• Recipient of 2003 Heart of Change Award given by Community Shares