Past Chairman and current Board Member - United Way Campaign
Member - Leadership Sevier and Leadership Knoxville
Past President - Tennessee County Services Association
Past and Present Chairman- Tennessee Development District Association
Past Chairman and current Executive Committee Member - East Tennessee Development District
Past Chairman and current Executive Committee Member - East Tennessee Human Resources Agency
Past Chairman and current Member of the Board, Carson Newman Board of Trustees
Current Board Member - Tennessee County Mayor Association
Past Chairman and Executive - UT Chancellor's Associates
Vice Chairman and current Board Member - Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board
Former Chairman, current Member and Deacon - First Baptist Church of Gatlinburg
Past Executive Committee Member - Sevier County Republican Party
Current Member – Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Past Chairman and current Board Member – East Tennessee Economic Development Agency
Treasurer – Sevier County Economic Development Council
Vice Chair and Executive Board Member – County Executives of America
Vice Chair – NACo Membership Committee
Larry Waters Sevier County Mayor
Larry Waters was born and raised in Sevier County. He graduated from Sevier County High School. He attended the University of Tennessee where he obtained a B.S. Degree in Business Administration in 1974. Larry then became a principal in the Sevier County school system until 1978 when he was elected to the position of Sevier County Executive. In 1984 he completed the Tennessee County Officials Certificate Program and continued to serve Sevier County as executive until 2003 when that title was changed to county mayor. Larry and his wife Terri make their home in Gatlinburg where they attend the First Baptist Church of Gatlinburg. They have two children, David, and Adrienne, married to Bart Ogle. They are the proud grandparents of Caden and Camilla Waters and Charlotte and Amelia Ogle.
Awards
Special Citation Veterans of Foreign Wars - 1980
Local Leadership Program - 1991
Pless R. Newman Republican Services Award - 2003
Boy Scouts Sequoyah District Great Smoky Mountain Council Good Scout Award - 2013
Robert M. Wormsley Outstanding County Official of the Year Award – 2010
East Tennessee State University Honorary Alumnus – 2013
University of Tennessee Outstanding Alumnus – 1995-96