April Cameron couldn’t possibly have known it, but she grew up right next door to her future.
“We lived in Dayton,” the Rhea County native says, “right beside the airport.”
While still an undergraduate at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, she took a part-time accounting job at what is now the Chattanooga Airport. She stayed after earning her degree in 1998 and is now in her fourth month as the airport’s CEO.
“For me, success is providing the Chattanooga community with the best air-service opportunities we can possibly provide,” says Cameron, who was the airport’s vice president for finance and administration when she succeeded the retiring Terry Hart Aug. 1.
“We have great connections out of Chattanooga,” she adds, “and the goal is to provide more. We want people to be proud of the airport here in Chattanooga.”