Emily Rose Hollingsworth

A native of Sevierville, Emily was salutatorian of her class at Gatlinburg-Pittman High School. She is the daughter of Russ and Chris Hollingsworth. Emily graduated magna cum laude from Belmont University with a BBA in entrepreneurship.

Emily was awarded the SIFE Service Leadership Award and the Beta Gamma Sigma Scholarship Award. She was a member of the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) national championship team. She served as the team administrator, vice president and a team presenter. Emily studied abroad in Dublin, Ireland at the Quinn School of Business, University College Dublin. She completed two small-business internships in her senior year.

After college, Emily worked with Show Hope, a nonprofit ministry founded by Steven Curtis Chapman. She then moved to Emma, Inc., an email marketing service in Nashville, where she worked as a Customer Support Specialist and then the Community Engagement Manager. After that, she developed her project management skills as a Digital Marketing Project Manager at Pyxl in Knoxville.

Emily is director of Digital Marketing at Clayton Homes, in Knoxville, where she resides with her husband, Daniel.