Family Promise of Roane County - Executive Director
Charles Elmore

Charles Elmore is a native of Kingston, TN who currently resides in Midtown. He graduated with honors from Roane County High School in 1998. That same year and began college at Roane State Community College, where he studied business and education. During his time there, he served as treasurer of the Student Government Association and founding editor of The Roane State Review - the student newspaper, earning an associate’s degree in 2000. He spent a semester at Guizhou Normal University in Guiyang, China.

Charles then attended Tennessee Technological University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree as well as two graduate degrees. He has completed additional graduate studies from The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and The University of Colorado at Denver and is currently enrolled in a graduate certificate program in social enterprise management at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business.

Charles spent seventeen years in education, working as a school librarian and technology teacher.

Elmore’s experience outside of education includes The Roane County Industrial Development Board, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Profit Management, Inc./Airport 82 & Associates, The Weekly Times, and The National Parks Service.

He currently serves as Executive Director for Family Promise of Roane County. He has served on a variety of local, state, and regional boards, including Tenn-Share and the state and regional library boards, where he served as chairman, and on boards for corporations and social organizations.

Charles is a 2020 graduate of Leadership of Roane County (LRC) and was recently put on the LRC board. He currently represents Roane County in the Leadership East Tennessee class of 2024.

In 2017, he cofounded Outdoor Kingston, a 501(c)3 nonprofit with Tara Stockton.