Speakers 2026
Ryan Dillingham, Executive Director of Transportation, Knox County Schools
Ryan Dillingham is the Executive Director of Transportation for Knox County Schools in Knoxville, TN. Knox County Schools has approximately 59,000 students and Mr. Dillingham oversees an operation utilizing more than 50 individual transportation contractors to provide transportation services to 20,000 students and 91 school sites each day. Mr. Dillingham has spent more than twenty years working in a variety of roles with KCSTD, including the last seven as Executive Director. He has been featured in several industry publications and is a past presenter at the Transporting Students with Disabilities and Special Needs conference.