Danni B. Varlan

Danni Varlan was appointed to the Tennessee Board of Regents on September 29, 2010, representing the second congressional district. She was reappointed to serve a second term in 2013 and a third term in 2019.

Varlan previously served as the Grant Writer, Major Gifts and Estate Planning Officer at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in Knoxville from 2012-2023. Prior to joining the Children’s Hospital, she served for ten years as President of East Tennesseans for Airfare Competition (ETAC), a nonprofit business coalition created for the purposes of developing and implementing initiatives to bring competitively priced air service to McGhee Tyson Airport. She was the Program Director for Leadership Knoxville from 1999 – 2002. Before that, she was blessed to be a stay at home mom to her four children for 12 years.

Varlan currently serves her community in many capacities including the board of directors of the East Tennessee Economic Council, American Museum of Science and Energy, Panhellenic National Scholarship Foundation, Relationship Builders, and commitments to her beloved St. George Greek Orthodox Church. She is a graduate of the 1998 class of Leadership Knoxville and was in the 2015 class of the East Tennessee Regional Leadership Program.

Varlan has a Bachelor of Arts in English from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia and is married to United States District Court Judge Tom Varlan. They share four grown children and six grandchildren.