Boyd elected association president

Officers of the Southern Nursery Association (SNA) who will serve for the 2005-2006 term were elected during the 106th annual meeting held at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel on Aug. 13.

Smartt resident William J. (Bill) Boyd was elected president succeeding Wayne K. Sawyer.

The new SNA president is owner of Flower City Nurseries. Flower City Nurseries is a wholesale nursery growing liners to finished balled and burlapped and container-grown trees, shrubs, evergreens with a focus on the landscape retail garden center and rewholesale businesses.

He has served on the Middle Tennessee Nurserymen’s Association board of directors from 1979-1984, serving as president in 1983; the Tennessee Nursery and Landscape Association board from 1985-1989 and served as president in 1988.

Boyd is also a member of the International Plant Propagators Society. In 1991, he won the TNA Crystal Award and the SNA David E. Laird Award. He was awarded the TNLA Wholesale Nurserymen of the Year in 2003.

On the local level, Boyd has served on the McMinnville-Warren County Chamber of Commerce board of directors, the Warren County Planning Commission, the Warren County Fair Board and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture Advisory Committee.

He is married to Neva Boyd and they are members of First United Methodist Church. He is the son of Joe and Mary Jo Boyd, also of Smartt.