Nancy B. Moody was born and raised in Middlesboro, Kentucky.  Following graduation as an honor student from Middlesboro High School, she received degrees in nursing from Eastern Kentucky University.  Other degrees were received after beginning her professional career at Lincoln Memorial University (LMU).  While at LMU, Dr. Moody was involved with initial and continuing accreditation activities from the American Veterinary Medical Association, the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences, and the National League for Nursing (NLN).  She was indirectly involved with accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), but directly involved with the preparation of substantive change reports and visits from SACS following the development of off-campus nursing programs in Corbin, Kentucky, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Madisonville, Tennessee.  She was directly involved with development of an RN to BSN program, three off-campus programs, and programs in Veterinary Science.

Dr. Moody has taught in associate, baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degree programs in nursing.  She has worked closely with faculty from the Colleges of Business, Public and Allied Health, and Medicine to develop interdisciplinary courses and a certificate program in health care management.  She has taught in private higher education, and in both statewide systems of higher education in Tennessee, the Tennessee Board of Regents and the University of Tennessee. 

Dr. Moody serves as a program evaluator and peer review panel member for the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission, as a research grant reviewer for the NLN, and is a peer panel reviewer for Nursing and Health Care Perspectives.  She has published in the Tennessee Nurse, the Journal of Professional Nursing, the Journal of Nursing Administration, the Nurse Practitioner, and in Clinical Excellence for Nurse Practitioners. She has presented or is scheduled to present locally, regionally, and nationally on nursing work force issues at conferences sponsored by the American Nurses Association, the American Organization of Nurse Executives,  the National Association of Student Nurses, the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty, the Rural Health Association of Tennessee, the Southern Regional Education Board, the Southern Nursing Research Society,  and the Tennessee Nurses Association.  Since 1994, she has garnered approximately $1 million in grants and contracts to study work force issues in Tennessee.

In terms of leadership, Dr. Moody has served as Department Chairperson, Dean, and Executive Director of an organization that was incorporated and became recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501[c]3 organization.  In the latter capacity, she has been directly involved in the conduct of state-wide meetings, worked with a multidisciplinary state-wide group, represented the organization at state and national meetings,  appeared before state boards, developed contracts with individuals and agencies, garnered donations, and written and administered grants for the organization.

She and her husband Tom have have two young adult children, Adam and Mykel.  Before moving to the President’s Home in Harrogate, the Moodys lived in Knoxville, Tennessee.