Joyce Jolley has served on the Board of Directors at the Boys & Girls Club of Morristown for over thirty-six consecutive years. Her local contributions to the local Boys & Girls Club Movement as well as the local community are extraordinary, far-reaching, and worthy of statewide recognition.

     Alongside her late husband, Gene (also an avid Boys & Girls Club supporter), the Jolley’s have played a vital role in the success of the Club, especially with the fundraising events, helping to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to support the annual operating budgets and the Boys & Girls Club members.

     Joyce’s interest in and support of the Boys & Girls Club of Morristown extends way beyond her financial generosity and outstanding leadership over the last thirty-six years. Joyce has individually mentored several Boys & Girls Club members, provided several discovery trips for kids (especially the girls), helped provide Christmas for many members and their families, quietly helped lots of members/families financially who were going through hardships and difficult times, instrumental in connecting children and teens living in public housing with the local Boys & Girls Club through her service on the local Housing Authority Board, helped teach swim classes at the Club, helped establish several scholarship funds at the Club including the Chet Meyers Fund and provided special meals for Club members during the school year.

     Perhaps her most notable contribution has been her involvement with the Boys & Girls Club Foundation of Morristown, which is a separate 501c(3) organization whose sole purpose is to raise resource to support the Boys & Girls Club of Morristown and its over 1,000 annual members. Joyce is a charter trustee who has served on the Foundation Board for over 15 years and helped raise over three million dollars to support the local organization.

     Jolley has received the highest honors the local Boys & Girls Club gives including: the Golden Youth Award (1992), the Service to Youth Award (1994) and the Donor of the Year multiple years. In addition, she was the recipient of the Boys & Girls Club Foundation of Morristown’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to Youth (2006).

     Jolley also serves the larger local community in many ways as she has served on the Walters State Community College Board of Trustees (25 years), served on the Morristown Housing Authority Board (15+ years), served as a Children's Sunday School Teacher at First United Methodist Church of Morristown for many years, established several scholarships at both Walters State Community College and First Presbyterian Church of Morristown and along with her family Built and Gifted Jolley Park (which is an all-inclusive playground park that caters to children and adults with disabilities) to the City of Morristown, Tennessee .

     Joyce and her late husband, Gene, were married for 59 years and owners of Lakeway Container. They have three children – Randall (Lisa) Jolley, D.J. (Leigh) Jolley and Kellie (Zachary) Kitts. They have seven grandchildren – Andrew, Taylor, Stephanie, Thomas, Keleigh, Simon and Cameron, five great grandchildren Lyla Grace, Eliora, Brayden, Keziah and Zephaniah.

     According to Executive Director John Seals, “Mrs. J is a true servant leader that always goes above and beyond the call to support our organization and this community. She is truly deserving of this recognition, but does not seek state-wide recognition.” The Boys & Girls Club of Morristown has been truly blessed to have Joyce Jolly involved with them for almost 4 decades. The impact that she has made for the Club and her community and region will continue to touch many lives for years to come.