David Taylor BSN, RN, CDDN
David Taylor is currently the State Director of Nursing for the Tennessee Department of Aging and Disability (DAD) and works at the Central Office in Nashville. He has worked for DAD for 19 years and came to the Central Office after 14 years at the East Tennessee Regional Office in Knoxville. He is a graduate of the University of North Alabama with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and has been a Registered Nurse for 39 years. Mr. Taylor is a Certified Developmental Disabilities Nurse (CDDN) and a member of the Developmental Disabilities Nurses Association (DDNA). Mr. Taylor served as a commissioned officer in the US Army Nurse Corps and earned a diploma from the US Army Academy of Health Sciences at Fort Sam Houston, Texas in Perioperative Nursing with a specialty in cardiothoracic surgery. He worked 15 years as an operating room nurse, open heart surgery team member, and operating room manager at Baptist Hospital of East Tennessee, where he met his wife of 30 years, Sharon. They have 3 grown children; Nicholas, Thomas and Lyndsey and enjoy being empty nesters at their home in Lebanon, TN.