Every year, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga honors staff and faculty with service awards recognizing employees for reaching milestones in five-year increments.
This year, 193 faculty and staff will be recognized for reaching significant service totals at the UTC Service Awards Annual Luncheon on Tuesday, Sept. 13.
The honorees include Heather Grothe, executive secretary in the Department of English, who is celebrating her 45th anniversary at UTC.
Three others have reached the milestone figure of 40 years with UTC: Michael Parham in repairs and maintenance, Chief of Police Robert Ratchford and Department of Music faculty member Rebecca St. Goar.
45-Year Honorees
- Heather Grothe
40-Year Honorees
- Michael Parham
- Robert Ratchford
- Rebecca St. Goar
35-Year Honorees
- Jean Walston
30-Year Honorees
- Sharon Jenkins
- Edwin Ling
- Jerome Morgan
25-Year Honorees
- Matthew Greenwell
- Stephanie Orr
- Brent Phillips
- Preston Rankin
- Michael Torres
- John Tucker
20-Year Honorees
- Yvonne Artis
- Arben Asllani
- Jennifer Beech
- Holley Beeland
- Troy Carroll
- Melissa Cate
- Lora Cook
- Debra Corey
- William Everett
- Ron Hill
- Margaret Kiessling
- Margaret Kovach (retired)
- Stephen Leather
- Bento Lobo
- April Matthews
- Gretchen Potts
- Sean Richards
- Valara Sample
- Raymond Soldano
- Kidambi Sreenivas
15-Year Honorees
- Myra Armstrong
- Thomas Balazs
- Jose Barbosa
- Ann Buggey
- Lisa Burke-Smalley
- Christopher Cunningham
- Joshua Davies
- Amy Doolittle
- Mark Fairchild
- William Floyd
- Weston Gentry
- Jeannie Hacker-Cerulean
- James Horten
- Jennifer Hunt
- Valerie Jeffers
- Jisook Kim
- Sara Knox
- Susan Lazenby
- Tara Mathis
- Marva Mcgee
- Darrell Meece
- Tiffany Mitchell
- Sheena Monds
- Elizabeth O’brien Oden
- Kevin Odom
- Michael Owens
- Laura Pelfrey
- Julia Romeo
- Terry Sanford
- Kenneth Scannapiego
- Christopher Sherbesman
- Willie Trueitt
- Kenyon Wilson
- Kimberly Wingate
- Andrew Workinger
10-Year Honorees
- Titus Albu
- Andrew Bailey
- Amy Barker
- Terri Bearbower
- Laura Bond
- Jennifer Buckles
- Bengt Carlson
- Amanda Clark
- Flocerfina De Guzman
- David Debter
- Rosite Delgado
- Jessica Dickerson
- Todd Doman
- Maurice Dorsey
- Rebecca Dragoo
- Cathy Eppinger
- Kelli Flood
- Lan Gao
- David Giles
- Christopher Gilligan
- Stephanie Gillison
- Lindsey Greiner
- Adam Groves
- Loren Hayes
- Thomas Helms
- Kevin Highsmith
- Carmen Jimenez
- Kristofer Luallen
- Marla Matthews (retired)
- Kimberly Mccroskey
- Corey Mcgraw
- Tessa Mullinax-Baker
- William Mullins
- Kristin Nalley
- Stephen Newby
- Roger Nichols
- Joshua Parks
- Marion Perkins
- Rosebelle Peters
- Melissa Powell
- Amber Roache
- Brian Rogers
- Amy Rutherford
- Chantal Smith
- John Swanson
- Sharon Thomas
- Brian Vann
- Kimberly Williams
- David Witt
- Anna Wright
5-Year Honorees
- Wolday Abrha
- Navid Aghakhani
- Bernardo Amparan
- John Barnes
- Jejal Reddy Bathi
- Dominique Belanger
- Kristen Black
- Philip Bonfiglio
- Natalee Boone
- Jameshia Borders
- Kayla Boyles
- Elizabeth Brinn
- Takodia Brooks
- Christopher Brown
- Bryan Bulmer
- Mollie Couch
- Julia Cummiskey
- William Davis
- Julie Dembo
- Bernadette Deprez
- Amy Devan
- Todd Dockery
- Jeanette Duggan
- Rachel Fleming
- Angela Foster
- Judith Gallagher
- Katelyn Gill
- Saeid Golkar
- Craig Gosnell
- Angela Griffith
- Matthew Grubb
- Jeremy Harris
- Jennifer Hogg
- Lofton Holloman
- Leroy Hughes
- Scottie Kilgore
- Devori Kimbro
- Naomi Klingbeil
- Danielle Kriener
- Elizabeth Leahy
- Robert Liddell
- Laura Livermore
- Emily Maddux
- Erin Melhorn
- Charles Merzbacher
- Brendan Miller
- John Morgan
- Rebecca Nasadowski
- Steven Olson
- Natalie Owsley
- Brenda Paider
- James Patton
- Meghan Phillips
- Monique Poinson
- Vahid Rasouli Disfani
- Zachary Ridder
- Edward Ross
- Rowdy Rulewicz
- Stephen Rumbaugh
- Michael Ryan
- Kari Salling Luehrs
- Luis Sanchez Diaz
- Heath Schultz
- Anthony Skjellum
- April Summers
- Matthew Villanueva
- Donald Walker
- Chandra Ward
- Donisia Ward
- Mark Wharton
- Sherese Williams
- April Wilson
- Bethany Womack
- Sungwoo Yang
