Yolanda Mattei Mizell

Background

Mizell, Yolanda Mattei was born on July 24, 1925 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of Giovachinno and Amelia (Metzner) Mattei.

Education

M.T., Advent School of Art, Nashville graduate, American Institute Banking, Nashville.

Career

Member finance staff, Third National Bank, Nashville, 1943-1951; Chief Executive Officer, Mattei Ornamental Plaster Company, Nashville, since 1964.

Achievements

• Yolanda Mattei Mizell has been listed as a noteworthy Ornamental plaster company executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member New Orleans Philharmonic Symphony Association, 1960-1962. Treasurer New Orleans Junior Opera League. Member executive committee National Hemophilic Foundation, 1972.

Co-chair Nashville Symphony Support Drive, 1974. Committee chair Benefit for Cumberland Museum and Science Center, Nashville, 1976, Trees of Christmas Benefit for Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, 1976, Benefit Davidson County chapter American Cancer Society, Nashville, 1977. General chair Outing Concert Benefit for Nashville Symphony Association, 1978.

Committee chair Swan Ball Benefit Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, 1963-1981. Life member Vanderbilt University Aid Society, Nashville, 1993, charter member Friends of Howe Garden (Tennessee Botanical Gardens). Founding member Bluebell Society (Parks Benefit for Inner City Youth).

Volunteer for United Way, Muscular Dystrophy, March of Dimes, American Red Cross, Ladies of Charity, Nashville. Member Ladies Hermitage Association, Abbey Leix Society (O'More College of Design), Belle Meade Country Club.

Connections

Married Andrew Hooper Mizell III, December 20, 1947. Children: Andrew Hooper IV, Julia Fleming Mizell Mayfield.

Father:

Giovachinno Mattei

Mother:

Amelia (Metzner) Mattei

Spouse:

Andrew Hooper Mizell III

child:

Julia Fleming Mizell Mayfield Mizell

child:

Andrew Hooper IV Mizell