Staff Photo / Then-Chair of the EPB board and winner of the Chattanooga Area Manager of the Year Joe Ferguson talks with Julie Baumgardner and Nel Reid before the start of the awards ceremony that took place in 2018 at The Chattanoogan. Ferguson, who served on the EPB board from 1991-2019, died June 12. Staff Photo / Then-Chair of the EPB board and winner of the Chattanooga Area Manager of the Year Joe Ferguson talks with Julie Baumgardner and Nel Reid before the start of the awards ceremony that took place in 2018 at The Chattanoogan. Ferguson, who served on the EPB board from 1991-2019, died June 12.
When Joe Ferguson stepped down from the EPB board of directors in 2019, he did so with a pretty specific caveat.
“I may be retiring from the EPB board,” he said at the time, “but I’m not retiring from the community.”
Former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker said Tuesday that Ferguson, who died June 12, was as good as his word. Corker said that after he retired from the U.S. Senate in 2019, he and Ferguson would meet and talk about how best to advance various community projects.
“Whether he was in a position of leadership or just trying to help as a citizen, Joe was continually putting his shoulder to the wheel to help make good things happen in our community,” Corker said in a telephone interview.
Staff Photo / Then-Chair of the EPB board and winner of the Chattanooga Area Manager of the Year Joe Ferguson talks with Julie Baumgardner and Nel Reid before the start of the awards ceremony that took place in 2018 at The Chattanoogan. Ferguson, who served on the EPB board from 1991-2019, died June 12.Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / From left, then-EPB Vice President of Community Development Hodgen Mainda and then-EPB Board Chair Joe Ferguson discuss the program during a 2017 event. Ferguson, who served on the EPB board from 1991-2019, died June 12.Staff photo / Joe Ferguson, then-chair of the board for EPB, speaks in 2018 during a Green Business Expo at the EPB downtown headquarters. Ferguson, who served on the EPB board from 1991-2019, died June 12.Staff Photo / Then-EPB Chair Joe Ferguson, left, and then-EPB President/CEO Harold DePriest announce in 2015 that residents of the Tennessee Valley will have the opportunity to have the world’s fastest home 10-gig internet service. Ferguson, who served on the EPB board from 1991-2019, died June 12.
