Christy Martin is a retired public school educator and holds three degrees from the University of Tennessee. After spending 30 years in Blount County Schools as a teacher and administrator she worked as an instructor at most of the area’s higher education institutions teaching in both undergraduate and graduate programs at Pellissippi State, Tusculum, LMU, and ETSU. She officially retired in 2020 after working as a coordinator of a social services program for youth aging out of foster care. Since 2023 she has written historical articles for The Daily Times and been on the board of the Blount County Historical Museum. In January of 2024, she started another writing journey through Patriot Legacies which is a team attempting to write the history of each Revolutionary War Patriot that is buried in Blount County. She and her husband Gary have a proud 7 generation history in Blount County.