The Board of People For Animals (PFA) is a reflection of the organization itself.  Its members have many years of experience in the animal welfare field, volunteer their time and share a deep, longstanding commitment to the well-being of animals.  They bring to their positions a variety of professional expertise, as well as other non-profit experience and numerous civic accomplishments.

Ann Logan, President

After graduating with a B. S. in child development and completing  post-graduate courses in her field, Ann Logan began her teaching career as a first grade teacher in public schools.  Over time she worked in both public and private schools teaching primarily at the kindergarten and first grade levels in Knoxville, TN and Jacksonville, FLA.  She later served as a substitute elementary teacher in Franklin, TN. Other professional responsibilities include working with her husband in his manufacturer’s agency.  This called for a new set of skills that proved challenging at times but rewarding and useful as well.

Along the way Ann was honored and challenged when the mayor appointed her to the Planning Commission of the City Of Franklin in which she lives.  She also held a volunteer position as property chair of the YWCA of Middle Tennessee where she coordinated the renovation of a building for use as a domestic violence shelter.  From that position she rose to election to the YWCA board.  She was nominated by the YWCA to receive the Mary Catherine Strobel Volunteer Award given annually in Middle TN for the most outstanding individual volunteer service.

Ann’s greatest passion has always been as an animal advocate.  In 1981 she seized a long-awaited opportunity to have an outlet for that passion.  She became a charter member of a local non-profit whose primary goal was to build an animal shelter.  For almost five years she worked to raise funds and served as co-chair of the foster/adoption program.  Eventually feeling a need to shift focus to spay-neuter, in 1986 she founded People For Animals (PFA).  She has served as president of PFA since that time.  One of the PFA accomplishments of which she is most proud is her authoring in 1989 of the mandated spay-neuter program that is still in effect at the county’s animal control shelter. 

More recently she was invited to join and became an active member of the United Partnership for Animal Welfare (UPAW) where she chaired the Policy & Legislation committee.  She also was invited by the county mayor to join the Williamson County Animal Control Task Force (WCACTF) where she worked with the county attorney to revise and strengthen the Rules & Regulations governing cats and dogs which were approved by the county commission and are in effect today.  She also wrote policies & procedures for the county’s new Spay/Neuter Clinics, a Comprehensive Adoption Program and for Euthanasia.

She has most recently become a charter member of Williamson Animal Services, Inc. (WAS), a non-profit that has evolved as the Task Force ends.  The mission of WAS is to promote the well-being of all county animals and provide support to Williamson Co. Animal Control and Adoption Center as it strives to achieve the mayor’s goal for it to become the best animal control program in the state.  She has been elected vice-president of the Board of that organization.  Spay/neuter is recognized by the Board as an essential and primary component of the strategy needed to significantly impact pet overpopulation.

Nancy Whittemore began her public career as the Director of the Knoxville-Knox County Foster Grandparent Program in 1978. She joined State Government in 1982 as part of the Governor’s State Planning Office. From 1983 until 1991, she was the Director of Community Services for the Department of Human Services where she managed a variety of state and federal programs.

In 1991, Nancy moved to the Department of Finance and Administration as the Director of Resource Development and Support. Here she was responsible for the offices of Contract Review, Program Accountability Review, Criminal Justice Programs, and the Tennessee Commission on National and Community Services.

Nancy served as Metro's Assistant Finance Director, a position she held for three years. On January 16, 2004, Mayor Bill Purcell appointed her as the Director of General Services for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.  She is the first woman to hold this position.

In her spare time, for many years Nancy has worked on behalf of animals with her focus being pet overpopulation issues.  She joined the board of People For Animals in 2004 and has served as Secretary/Treasurer.  

Originally from Maryville, Tennessee, Nancy received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and a graduate degree in Public Administration from Tennessee State University.

Ann grew up in LaPorte, Indiana and   graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in Biology.  In 1990 she  received a Doctor of Optometry degree from State University of New York.

She has moved around the country with her husband when his work presented opportunity in  California, Connecticut, Ohio, New York, Michigan, Texas and most recently Tennessee.  After working as an optometrist for 20 years, she retired from practice to pursue her passion of pet spay and neuter.  That passion led her to People For Animals where she volunteers her time as a screener and a board member.

Ann has also been involved with Prevent Blindness Tennessee and Texas for the past 7 years.  She also volunteers at The Brentwood Library.

Ann enjoys golfing, traveling and crocheting.  She sells her crocheted creations on etsy.com (www.annroush.etsy.com)  to raise money for PFA’s Spay/Neuter Assistance Program.  In 2010 $2700 was raised for PFA through sales of her crocheted items.

Middle TN has been home for the past 2 years for Ann, her husband and their 2 dogs.

Adrienne is currently a private tutor and homework coach in Nashville with a wide range of teaching experience. She works with middle-schoolers to college students.

She has also been a writer and editor in education. For 24 years she both directed and taught in the writing program at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. For eight years of those years, she taught concurrently in the University of Southern California School of Medicine's Health Preparation Program, in which promising youth achieve their college goal: the pursuit of a career in the health sciences, working in underserved communities.

Adrienne holds a B.A. in English and psychology, and an M.A. in English. She has consulted for both education and industry on effective writing of educational materials, memos, letters, and reports. In addition, Adrienne has published three textbooks used in Freshman English courses in the United States and abroad.

Always an advocate for preventive health-care access for all, and one whose heart breaks for homeless animals and their plight, Adrienne has felt fortunate to volunteer for People for Animals as a screener since 2009. “Working with People for Animals allows me to feel like I am doing something to help PREVENT the consequences of homelessness, not just react to it,” she explains. Just prior to working with PFA, she helped initiate and volunteered in the Respect Program for ACT NOW. The Respect Program was a reading and discussion outreach for youth in the schools, encouraging compassion in human-animal relationships, including a spay/neuter awareness program. In 2010 Adrienne joined the board of People for Animals.