Nine Line Board of Directors

Megan Hostler

President

Megan is a retired attorney with a long history of community involvement and support of worthy charitable efforts. She currently serves as President and CEO of Nine Line Foundation, Inc, and as a member of its Board of Directors. Megan is responsible for the day to day operations of Nine Line Foundation, Inc and supervises all Foundation activities. She also serves on the Board of West-Point.Org, a nonprofit organization which provides online communication support and assistance to West Point graduates and to parents of Cadets at the United States Military Academy and any other service academies.

Megan also served as the Connecticut State Coordinator for Admissions Representatives to The United States Military Academy at West Point, and also served as Vice President of Operation Support Our Troops, a nonprofit organization which sent “care packages” to deployed Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Airmen, and otherwise assisted deployed service members and returning wounded warriors.  From 2010 to 2017, Megan also served on the Board of Help Our Military Heroes, Inc, a nonprofit organization which focuses on providing appropriately modified vehicles to service member amputees.

Megan holds a Juris Doctor degree from Wake Forest University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and International Relations from Manhattanville College.

Megan is married to Dutch Hostler, who is a 1968 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Dutch holds a Juris Doctor degree from Wake Forest University School of Law, which is where Dutch and Megan met. Dutch and Megan have two sons, both of whom are West Point graduates and received their medical degrees from Duke University School of Medicine.

D. David “Dutch” Hostler

Treasurer

Dutch is a retired attorney with a long history of service.  Upon graduation from The United States Military Academy at West Point in 1968, Dutch served as a Field Artillery officer, including tours as a Battery Commander in Germany and Vietnam.  In 1975, Dutch branch transferred to the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, where he served for the next several years as a Defense Appellate Attorney. Upon resigning his active duty commission in 1982, Dutch served as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve for the next 18 years, including ten years’ service as an Appellate Judge on the US Army Court of Criminal Appeals, and retired as a Colonel (USAR).

Dutch also served as corporate counsel for IBM for over twenty-one years.  Throughout his career, he has served as a Director on both for profit and non-profit Boards. Dutch earned his Bachelor of Science degree from West Point in 1968, and his Juris Doctorate degree from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1975.  He is also a graduate of Command and General Staff College and U.S. Army War College.

Ashli Clubine

Secretary

Ashli was born in Birmingham, Alabama and grew up in Alabama and Georgia. Passionate about her desire to work with veterans struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, she graduated from the University of West Georgia in 2010 with a Bachelors degree in Psychology. After moving to Savannah with her husband in 2014, she became the Secretary for the Foundation board in the fall of 2015. She is responsible for assisting with donation management, event coordination, and outreach to other non-profit organizations with similar agendas as the Nine Line Foundation. Her personal goal is to support the continued growth of the Nine Line Foundation, raising awareness of the struggles that service members and their families face once their tours of duty have been served.

Ashli and her husband Matt currently reside in Savannah, Georgia, with their daughter Evelyn.

Jason Smartt

Jason Smartt is an accomplished Senior Executive and Consultant with more than fourteen years of success in the military, banking, food and beverage, and apparel industries. He has held leadership positions at The Federal Savings Bank, Smartt Management, Tyson Foods, The Kraft Heinz Company, and the U.S. Army.

A 2006 graduate of The United States Military Academy at West Point, where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Leadership and Management, Jason has also obtained his MBA in Marketing, Finance, Entrepreneurship, and General Management from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Management. As an experienced Board and Advisory Board member, Jason has held positions with multiple nonprofit and for-profit companies, and is pleased to bring his expertise to the Nine Line Foundation Board of Directors.