Lilian Mashburn
Contact:
University of Tennessee
Howard H. Baker, Jr.
Center for Public Policy
1640 Cumberland Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37996-4014
Office: 865.974.0931
Fax: 865.974.8777
Email: lmashburn@utk.edu
Bio: Recently retired, Lillian Tauxe Mashburn was the director of the Office of Federal Relations for the Knoxville Campus at the University of Tennessee. She is currently consulting with the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy as a Senior Fellow for External Relations. With over 37 years of government liaison experience, Ms Mashburn has been involved with federal, state, and local officials, agencies, corporations, and professional organizations. Her recent responsibilities involved facilitating programs and legislation involving research activities and interdisciplinary research centers. She also dealt with the many of the regulatory issues facing higher education including student aid, information technology, and patent issues. She also has worked to develop new relationships for the University with industry and government agencies, i.e. TVA, DOE, DOD EPA, NASA and various government laboratories. She served as the University of Tennessee’s Councilor for the Oak Ridge Associated Universities in 2005-2007.
Prior experience included serving as executive director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ), director of Public Relations and later corporate accounts officer for United American Bank. Ms Mashburn founded a consulting business, LTM Consultants, in the late 70’s primarily assisting technology firms such as CTI, Environmental Systems Corporation,(ESC) and Perceptics, in the Knoxville and Oak Ridge area. Her involvement in the technical community has included technology transfers of laboratory and university developed R&D to manufacturing companies in the Knoxville and Oak Ridge area and the marketing of technical services. She joined The University of Tennessee’s College of Engineering in 1987as director of Industrial Relations, and quickly became involved in governmental relations working on federal research projects.
Ms. Mashburn worked with many organizations in higher education and scientific research on the national level. She served as co-chairman of the National Association of Land Grant Schools and College’s (NASULGC) Council on Governmental Affairs in 2004 and is active in other organizations dealing with higher education and science issues. She was honored in 2005 and 2006 by the NASULGC Council on Governmental Affairs with the Carolyn Cross Distinguished Service Award.
Active in several technical organizations and societies that have included the American Nuclear Society, Tennessee’s Technology Conference (WATTec) and the Technical Society of Knoxville, she has served as an officer and a board member. She is currently on the board of directors of the East Tennessee Economic Council and the Moses Teen Center. She has served as president of the East Tennessee Industrial Council and the Technical Society of Knoxville and was the founding president of the Executive Women's Association. She is a graduate of the 1994 Class of Tennessee Leadership and served on its board of directors. During the 1982 World's Fair, she served as chairman of the Community Involvement Committee, working with government and community leaders from a 16 county region to coordinate activities in preparation for the Fair. She ran for Welfare Commissioner of Knox County as an Independent Candidate in 1974 and has given her papers from that campaign to the Baker Center.
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Ms Mashburn has also been involved in a leadership role in many civic and social service organizations such as Child and Family of Tennessee, Planned Parenthood, and the Knoxville Chamber Partnership. She is married to John Mashburn, who works for UT Battelle at the SNS and has two children, Sam and Laura. Grandchildren are Samantha and Sarah Mashburn and Zoe Parks.
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