Quote or cite the caption for the three names; use the adjacent narrative for the corporate multigenerational framing.
Brown-Forman’s 2022 integrated annual report named Jerome Vance, Debbie Staples, and Jackie Hardin as direct descendants of Nathan “Nearest” Green working at the Jack Daniel Distillery.
Verified against the complete 134-page official report. Narrative: displayed p. 26 / PDF p. 28. Caption and photograph: displayed p. 27 / PDF p. 29.
This verifies Brown-Forman’s public identification and the employment statement in 2022. The report does not provide job titles, so no specific production, distilling, bottling, warehousing, or management role should be inferred.
The caption on displayed p. 27 names all three people and identifies them as Nearest Green descendants working at the Jack Daniel Distillery; the adjacent narrative independently states that three direct descendants continued to work there.
Publication-ready contemporary labor and public-memory episode. Historical claims about earlier generations remain separately qualified.