DIRECTOR EDDIE ROBERSON
Eddie Roberson was born in 1952 in Nashville. Raised in the home of a minister, his family was transferred to Chattanooga in 1960. He attended Chattanooga public schools graduating from Chattanooga High School in 1971. He graduated from University of Tennessee with a bachelors and master degrees. He received a Ph.D. in Public Administration from The Institute of Government at Tennessee State University in 1998. He is also a Rule 31 Mediator. While in Chattanooga, he was elected twice to the Chattanooga School Board and served as President of the Chattanooga Sertoma Club in 1988.
Dr. Roberson was hired by the Public Service Commission (PSC), the predecessor to the Tennessee Regulatory Authority, in 1975. He was appointed as Chief of Consumer Services Division of the PSC and transferred to Nashville in 1989. He also served as the agency's executive director from 1995 to 1996. He was appointed by Governor Phil Bredesen in 2006 as director to the TRA and reappointed in 2008. He served as agency chairman in 2007-2008.
Dr. Roberson is active in the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners where he formerly served as chair of the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs and currently serves on the committees of Natural Gas, Consumer Affairs (of which he is Vice Chairman) and Education and Research. He is also on the Advisory Council of the Center for Public Utilities at the University of New Mexico.
Dr. Roberson currently lives in Hendersonville where he is actively involved in the community and his church where he serves as an Elder. He is a member of the Hendersonville Rotary Club where he is a Paul Harris Fellow and was elected as club president for 2007-2008. He is married to the former Kathy Coxey of Chattanooga and they have two daughters, Heather and Brooke.
Senior Policy Advisor: Jean Stone
Executive Administrative Assistant: Vicky Nelson
Contact Director Roberson via e-mail at, eddie.roberson@tn.gov
Revised 02/24/2009
