A respected leader with more than 50 years of nonprofit management and administration experience, Jaynee Day led Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee for 31 years. Under her leadership, hunger relief efforts grew from 3 million pounds of food in 1988 to 32 million pounds in 2018. She oversaw the opening of satellite distribution centers in Rutherford and Benton counties and grew her team of 10 to 116 by her retirement in 2019.

Jaynee was the Global Foodbanking Network’s  first Food Bank Ambassador to the developing world in 2007 and also supported relief efforts in Florida after Hurricane Andrew and in Houston when Hurricane Katrina brought 200,000 refugees to that city. 

She is a former board member of Feeding America, the Global Foodbanking Network, Nashville Sports Council and Leadership Music. She is a member of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Nashville Rotary Club and serves on the nonprofit board of the Store and has served on the Mayor’s Metropolitan Homelessness Commission.

Jaynee was named Nashville Post’s CEO of the Year in 2016 and received Feeding America’s John van Hengel Fellowship Award in 2016, Nashville Business Journal’s Most Admired CEO, Nonprofit Award in 2016, 2015 and 2012 and the Association of Nonprofit Executives’ CEO of the Year Award in 2001 and the Bank of America’s nonprofit CEO of the year in 2018.

Jaynee has an associate arts degree from Stephens College and a bachelor’s of social work from Park University.