Bobbie Smith Ann Bryant

Background

Bryant, Bobbie Ann Smith was born on October 28, 1959 in Murray, Kentucky, United States. Daughter of William Hal Smith and Shirley Ann Chilcutt Smith.

Education

Student, Murray State University, 1980—1981.

Career

1998—Present Community Showcase, Inc., Project Consultant, Writer

1999—2021 Community Development Advisor, Kentucky League of Cities

1993—1998 Director, Shelby Development Corporation, Shelbyville

1992—1993 Director, Heart of Hopkinsville

1990—1993 Co-anchor TV 43, Hopkinsville, Kentucky

1983—1990 Principal owner, The Showcase, Hopkinsville, Kentucky

1973—1983 Sales Clerk, The Showcase, Murray, Kentucky

Achievements

• 2010 Forty Acres and A Red Belly Ford: The Smith Family of Calloway County, Author
  
  2012 Farming in the Black Patch (film), Associate Producer
  
  2013 Passions of the Black Patch: Cooking and Quilting in Western Kentucky, Author
  
  2016 Farming in the Black Patch (book), Author
  
  2019 A Beautiful Star: The Life of Lois Etoile Brewer, Author
  
  2022 Calloway County, Kentucky: The First Two Hundred Years, Compiler/Editor
  
  2022 My First Eighty Years: Bettie Smith Stoll, Compiler/Editor
  
  2024 Bygone Churches of Calloway County, Compiler/Editor
  
  
  
  Marquis Who's Who has listed Bobbie Ann Smith Bryant as a noteworthy public relations executive and consultant.

Membership

2022 - Present Calloway County Genealogical and Historical Society, current President

2024 - 2027 Kentucky Historical Society, Board Member

2005 - Present Middletown United Methodist Church

2013 - 2018 University of Louisville Wesley Foundation, Board Chair

2001 - 2004 Resurrection United Methodist Church, Board Chair

1997 - 2001 Preservation Kentucky, Frankfort, Kentucky, Board Member

Member of the Kentucky Humane Society, and the American Cancer Society

Interests

• Travel, history, cooking, genealogy.

Connections

Married William Hamilton Bryant Junior, September 1, 2001. Stepchildren: Hamilton Garrett Bryant, Paul Landon Bryant.