General Chair & Vice Chair to lead volunteer efforts for 2024 Enshrinement Festival, including Enshrinement Week 

• Kimberly Davenport to Serve as General Chair; Vivian Leggett to serve as General Vice Chair

The Pro Football Hall of Fame and Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce have named two longtime community volunteers to the top leadership positions for the 2024 festivities that will celebrate the annual Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement. 

Kimberly Davenport will serve as General Chair and Vivian Leggett as General Vice Chair.

Davenport and Leggett will lead the more than 2,500-person volunteer contingent that helps with the planning, coordination and execution of all events surrounding the annual festivities. The volunteers provide a world-class experience to the hundreds of thousands of fans who will occupy Northeast Ohio and the Canton community for the 2024 Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival, including Enshrinement Week. The annual event kicks off the NFL’s season and centers around the Enshrinement for members of the Class of 2024, presented by Visual Edge IT, that will take place Saturday, Aug. 3, at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.

Davenport, the Director of Culture, Diversity and Engagement for Shearer’s Foods, enters her 21st year of volunteer service with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival. Before serving as the General Vice Chair in 2023, she served on and led the Hostess Committee for 19 years. 

A Stark County native, she has a rich history of community service and recently completed her second term on the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Davenport also sits on the Stark County Manufacturing Workforce Development Partnership Board, committee chair for the Black College Football Hall of Fame Classic and member of Stark County Community Moving Forward.

Davenport resides in Plain Township with her husband, Pastor Tomier Davenport of True Light Christian Ministries, and their children Tomier and Alexandria. She is a graduate of the University of Akron and Cleveland State University. 

Leggett has devoted more than 40 years of leadership experience to Aultman Health Foundation in a variety of clinical and non-clinical areas. Prior to joining the Aultman Foundation leadership team, she was Vice President for Community Engagement at Aultman College. In her current role, she works collaboratively to connect grateful communities with philanthropic opportunities within the Aultman organization. 

Having served on various committees and boards throughout the community, Leggett is currently the chairperson of Women’s Impact, Inc., a member of the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank Endowment Board and most recently the chairperson for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinees’ Roundtable.

Leggett is a graduate from Kent State University with an Associate of Applied Sciences in Nursing degree, Ashland University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and the University of Akron with a Master of Science in Nursing. She and her husband, Don, are parents of a daughter.

Davenport and Leggett will work alongside staffs at the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce to provide guidance and resources to enhance an already solid foundation of dedicated community volunteers. 

The volunteer corps provides the support necessary to host the large celebration each summer in Canton.

The annual Enshrinement is a celebration of the Hall of Fame’s important mission to “Honor the Greatest of the Game, Preserve its History, Promote its Values and Celebrate Excellence Together.” The celebration, through collaboration with the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce, has grown remarkably over the past 60-plus years, now drawing an estimated 700,000 participants to its events and generating economic impact exceeding $40 million for the Canton/Stark County area and nearly $65 million for the State of Ohio. In addition, millions of people tune in to experience several events that are televised nationally.

In one of the greatest spectacles in sports, more than 100 Hall of Famers are expected to return to Canton to participate in the festivities that surround the Enshrinement of the new class at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.