Leadership development a top focus for incoming NAAA president

Although he is president-elect of the National Auto Auction Association and is president of Southern Auto Auction, Eastern Powersports Auction, and SAFS Inc., Garrison Hudkins thinks of himself in more simple terms.

“People say, ‘What’s your background?’, and I have a very simple answer: I’m the husband of Carolyn, the father of Campbell and Connor, the brother of Gray, the uncle of Augie and Indie, the brother-in-law of Chris, John and Joey, the son of Lee and Pauline, and the son-in-law of Larry and the late Candy Tribble,” Hudkins said. 

“That’s who I am. It doesn’t get much more complex than that. That’s really how I view myself in the world.”

But the family man has had a long career in remarketing and in business …