Moss always kids that he and Lindsay are newcomers to Gainesville since they have only been in here since 1982. He and Lindsay were both born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia but are glad they chose Gainesville to start their business and raise a family. They have one daughter, Katie and a grandson, who is 18 months old.
Moss graduated from Georgia State University and served in the Air Force Reserves. From there, he worked for his father-in-law, Walter Boomershine, at the Boomershine Auto Companies in Atlanta in 1976, while Lindsay received her J.D. degree from Emory Law School. Lindsay joined the firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell in the Tax Division. In 1982, Moss and Lindsay purchased the Cadillac and Oldsmobile dealership in Gainesville, sealing their fate as citizens of this beloved city.
Gainesville has been blessed and fortunate that Moss and Lindsay chose to move here. Both Moss and Lindsay have been active in their church and community. Lindsay served in many different capacities including Good News at Noon, The United Way including the Tocqueville Leadership Society and National Conference Delegate along with Moss, President of The Northeast Georgia Community Foundation, First Presbyterian Church, Center Point, Long Range Planning for First Presbyterian, and Junior Achievement Programs at Moss Robertson Cadillac-Mazda.
Moss was instrumental and a co- founder in starting Lanier Area Council on Child Abuse, serves on Advisory Board for Gainesville Care, and has served on Advisory Board for Bank South Gainesville Branch. He is very active at First Presbyterian Church, where is an elder, the Chairman of Diaconate, a member of the Long Range Planning Committee, and also serves on the Board of Directors of Presbyterian Homes of Georgia. In addition, he also serves on the Board of Trustees for Montreat College, and is member of State Executive Committee Georgia's Children's Health Care Alliance (GCHA), Kiwanis Club Gainesville, is Chairman of Twenty Group for National Automobile Dealers Association, and has participated in Leadership Hall County.
Lindsay and Moss held the philosophy that it is everyone's personal responsibility to give back to their community. Everyone should pay their "civic rent,” as they like to say. One of the most effective ways they believed to do this was through the Junior Achievement programs. Moss became involved with the Junior Achievement organization in 2001. He, along with the management of his company Moss Robertson Cadillac-Mazda, developed a program that actually took Moss Robertson employees into the classroom of Gainesvile High School where they taught students about financial literacy. Afterwards, the students would go to the dealership and experience the actual business for a day within the various departments, and learn further what Moss calls “The Miracle”, free enterprise.
Moss and Lindsay felt that Junior Achievement is not just a good organization but effectively could be one of the strongest influences on youth today if leveraged by members and businesses in local communities. The students who have participated in JA programs and the Gainesville community as a whole have been touched greatly by the love and support of these two shining stars.
