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    • Aug 26, 1961
    Guitarist Jimmy Olander is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He becomes a member of Diamond Rio, whose crisp harmonies and instrumental prowess net such melodic hits as "Meet In The Middle," "One More Day" and "How Your Love Makes Me Feel"
    Oct 30, 1995
    Diamond Rio's Jimmy Olander marries Claudia Fontenot
    Jun 2, 1998
    Diamond Rio's Jimmy Olander, a skydiving veteran who's jumped more than 200 times, has his picture taken at 9,500 feet, with the Space Shuttle Discovery streaking skyward in the background over Cape Canaveral, before his latest jump
    May 21, 2002
    Diamond Rio's Jimmy Olander has a son, Maximum Fitzgerald Olander, in a Nashville hospital. His wife, Claudia Fontenot, is in the delivery room as the birthmother delivers the boy, who they have agreed to adopt
    May 22, 2002
    Diamond Rio's Jimmy Olander wins the Top Guitar honor during the 37th annual Academy of Country Music awards, aired on CBS from the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles
    Jun 16, 2004
    The U.S. Army's Golden Knights parachute team holds a mass skydive in Smyrna, Tennessee, for several country figures: Jeff Bates, Craig Morgan, TV personality Lorianne Crook and Diamond Rio guitarist Jimmy Olander
    Apr 5, 2005
    Diamond Rio's Jimmy Olander mistakenly locks three-month-old Tank Elijah in his Chevy Tahoe outside the Williamson County Courthouse in Franklin, Tennessee. Ironically, Olander and his wife, Claudia, are at the courthouse to adopt the boy
    Apr 30, 2005
    Diamond Rio members Marty Roe and Jimmy Olander participate in the Music City Marathon and Half Marathon
    Apr 29, 2006
    Diamond Rio guitarist Jimmy Olander runs the 13.1-mile route during the Country Music Marathon in Nashville, finishing in one hour, 50 minutes
    Apr 28, 2007
    Despite battling an upper respiratory infection, Diamond Rio's Jimmy Olander runs the half-marathon at the Music City Marathon in Nashville along with bandmate Marty Roe and Carolyn Dawn Johnson
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