Steve Hall, CEO/Owner/Founder
Steve Hall, CEO, Superior Drivers Institute, is a Nashville, Tennessee native and a graduate of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.  Hall served four years in the United States Army.  He held the rank of Captain as a Special Agent in Counterintelligence.  After military service, Hall was a national industrial plant recruiter for the Tennessee Department of Economic Development for one year.

He then began his 33 year career as a commercial real estate broker and developer. Initially he was the exclusive agent for the 1,200 acre Interchange City Industrial Park in Nashville.  Hall built his first building, a 43,000 square foot distribution center, for the Kirkhill Company of Downey, California in Interchange City in 1976.  That same year he developed the Butler Drive Industrial Park in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and a 50,000 square foot manufacturing plant there for Goodman Conveyor of Chicago, Illinois.  He also built a 100,000 square foot center for the Spicer Transmission Division of the Dana Corporation in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1982.

In 1984, Hall built and leased to the Dana Corporation the Truck Terminal and 10 acre site which is now the new headquarters for Superior Drivers Institute (SDI), a truck driver training school, in Columbia, Tennessee.  He has owned and operated the facility continuously since 1984.

During his 33 year career as a commercial real estate broker, Hall has sold and/or developed properties in Kentucky, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.

He has also served as the Middle Tennessee Director of the Tennessee Industrial Development Council and as a member of the advisory board of the Nashville State Technical Institute (now Nashville State Technical College).  He was one of the original eight founders and directors of Franklin National Bank in Franklin, Tennessee.  He and two others also founded the Visionary Lighting and Display Manufacturing Company in Annapolis, Maryland. 

Hall has had experience in education prior to opening the Superior Drivers Institute, a truck driver training school.  He held a permanent teaching certificate in Tennessee having student taught at Red Bank High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  For several years, he served as a guest lecturer to the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.  He was an advisor to the Masters Degree Program at Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai, Thailand.  Hall is also a graduate of the Institute for International Studies in Tokyo, Japan.

During his career Hall has sold and/or developed over 2,000,000 square feet of industrial buildings while working with national and international firms.  He has also developed condominiums, apartments and shopping centers.