Our Team

Our Founder

Scottie Bowman is a successful business owner in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Through her own journey of recovery from addiction, she realized there was a great need in Chattanooga for a safe place where the journey to wellness and recovery for women can begin. With this in mind, in June 2020, Scottie constructed the first Launch Pad home. Her vision was to create a community of hope and healing for those seeking to overcome addiction. Her heart longs to see women living with addiction discover renewal, recovery, empowerment and prosperity. She models these very things each and every day.

Our Leaders

  • Shelley Armstrong

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    After a well-rounded background in nonprofit fundraising and management over the past 32 years, Shelley became the ED in November 2022. She served as director of Income and later, senior regional director at the American Heart Association in Chattanooga. She then became director of Special Events and Major Gifts at the Chattanooga Food Bank, where she exceeded fiscal year goals by nearly 150 percent.

  • Kelli Webber

    DIRECTOR OF HOUSING

    Our first employee, and for its first year, our only employee, Kelli supervises all the Resident Managers and leads the relationships with referral agencies. When she isn’t advocating for a resident or training a new house lead she’s likely being the boss of some spreadsheets and uplifting the Launch Pad team from her office through Microsoft Teams.

  • Sommer Mickel

    RESIDENT MANAGER

  • Victoria Brooks

    RESIDENT MANAGER

  • Jodi Davis

    RECOVERY COACH

  • Employee Photo Paige Robinette

    Paige Robinette

    RESIDENT MANAGER

Our Board

  • Justin Booker

  • Dominique Brandt

  • Jamie Buttram

  • Chandra Chambers

  • Kathy J. Clark

  • Donna Nelson Coleman

  • Dr. Deborah DiStefano

  • Randy Durham

  • Mark Hite - Rest In Peace 1/1/24

  • Christi Homar

  • Kristen Hutton

  • Susan C. Stein

  • Dr. Saundra Williams

  • Melodye C. Zimmerman

We need your support.

Your donation to The Launch Pad will help to support women as they navigate their recovery. With your help, we will continue to educate and support our residents. All donations go directly toward building our community and enriching our women's lives. Please consider a donation today! We need your support!