IPS History » Timeline & Highlights
2000-Present
2000: Tom Ballard becomes Vice President
of Public and Government Relations
2000: MTAS Elected Officials Academy begins
2000: LEIC receives funding through the U.S. Justice Department
Edward Byrne Fund
2000: LEIC starts cybercrime training
2000: Michael Sullivan becomes Executive Director of LEIC
2001: National Forensic Academy™ (NFA™) begins to train crime
scene investigators
2001: CGT is dissolved
2002: LEIC receives funding for Project Safe Neighborhoods
2002: Michael Garland becomes Executive Director for CTAS
2003: LEIC receives $3 million to establish the Center
for Homeland Security Training
2004: Hank Dye becomes Vice President of Public Relations
and Government Affairs, overseeing IPS
2005: David Hall becomes Executive Director of CIS
2006: Daniel Baker becomes Executive Director LEIC
2006: The Gary H. Hensley Municipal Management Internship Endowment
is established for MTAS
2006: Small Business innovation Research Program (SBIR) starts
at CIS
2006: Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) starts at CIS
2006: LEIC begins transit-terrorist classes
2007: Dr. Mary Jinks becomes Associate Vice President of IPS
2007: The Mary and Jack Jinks Institute for Public Service (IPS)
Scholarship is established
2007: CIS receives the Tennessee Center for Performance
Excellence Achievement Award
2007: The Muscatello/Rodgers Local Government Internship Endowment
is established for CTAS
2008: The National Forensic Academy opens its new
7,000-square-foot training facility
2008: Mike Tallent named Executive Director of MTAS
2008: IPS Surpasses the $2 million mark for the Campaign for Tennessee
2008: Dr. Mary Jinks is named Vice President of Public Service for UT
2008: Chuck Shoopman and Dr. Karen Holt became assistant
vice presidents for IPS
2009: The Naifeh Center for Effective Leadership is established
by the Tennessee Legislature
2009: Don Green named Executive Director of LEIC
2009: Paul Jennings named Executive Director of CIS following
the retirement of David Hall
2010: Mike Tallent named AVP at IPS
2010: Steve Thompson named Executive Director of MTAS
2010: IPS establishes the Leadership Academy
1990-2000
1990: MTAS Moves home office to the UT Conference Center
1991: Tom Ballard becomes Associate Vice President of IPS
1991: Rodney Carmichael becomes Executive Director of CTAS
1994: Bingham Endowment Fund is established for visiting
consultants of MTAS
1994: Tennessee Materials Exchange program starts at CIS
1994: The Kessel Special Projects Endowment is established at CTAS
1995: First issue of Tennessee Materials Exchange is published
1995: CIS begins charging user fees for service
1996: Event Management Services starts as support group for CGT and CIS
1997: Southeastern Community Oriented Policing Education Institute
is established, later becoming LEIC
1997: Ron Gibson becomes Executive Director of CGT
1998: First private fund-raising campaign raises more than $1 million for IPS
1998: Critical Care Program is dissolved
1998: SCOPE expands into the new Law Enforcement Innovation Center
1980-1990
1980:Odell Miner becomes Executive Director of MTAS
1981: Robert Hutchinson becomes Vice President of Public Service
and Continuing Education
1981: Gary M. Mabrey III becomes Executive Director of CGT
1982: IPS and the Division of Continuing Education consolidate
under the same Vice President
1982: Tom Ballard becomes Executive Director of IPS
1983: C.L. Overman becomes Executive Director of MTAS
1983: T.C. Parsons becomes Executive Director of CIS
1984: County Officials Certificate Training Program (COCTP) begins
1984: Patricia Davis becomes Executive Director of CGT
1986: CIS begins its affiliation with the national
Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC)
1987: Sammie Lynn Puett becomes Vice President of IPS
1989: Robert M. Wormsley becomes Executive Director of CTAS
1989: Tom Ballard becomes Assistant Vice President of IPS
1989: Robert Schwartz becomes Executive Director of MTAS
1989: CTAS County Officials Certificate Training Program (COCTP) earns
legislative accreditation
1989: The Local Government Leadership Program (LGLP) is created
1970-1980
1970: S.H.(Bo)Roberts is named Vice
President for Urban and Public Affairs
1971: The Institute for Public Service (IPS) is created
by the UT Board of Trustees
1971: The Critical Care Education Center (CCEP) is created
1973: Roy S. Nicks becomes Vice President for Urban and Public Affairs
1973: The County Technical Assistance Service (CTAS) is created
by TCA (49-9-402)
1973: Ralph Harris becomes the first Executive Director of CTAS
1973: CCEP becomes part of IPS
1973: General Assembly moves mandate of the Government Industry
Law Center (GILC) to IPS and GILC is dissolved
1974: The Tennessee General Assembly amended TCA to establish IPS
1975: James H. Westbrook becomes Executive Director of CTAS
1975: Charles E. Smith becomes Vice President for Urban and Public Affairs
1976: MTAS Memphis office closes – Jackson office opens
1979: MTAS moves into Andy Holt Apartment offices
The Early Years
1946: Tennessee Municipal League established
1946: Herbert Bingham becomes Executive Director of Tennessee
Municipal League
1948: Luther Gutlick speaks about the importance of creating MTAS
1949: The Municipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS) is created by the
Tennessee Code Annotated (49-9-403 TCA
1949: MTAS receives first request from the City of Norris
1949: Gerald Shaw becomes the first Executive Director of MTAS
1949: MTAS establishes office space at the UT Aviation Barracks
1949: MTAS establishes relationship with the Tennessee Municipal League
(TML) through the Memorandum of Understanding
1950: MTAS hires first four consultants
1950: First issue of TML's Tennessee Town and City is published
1950: MTAS moves into new office in the UT College of Law building
1953: Victor Hobday becomes Executive Director of MTAS
1953: MTAS opens first regional office in Nashville
1956: MTAS Library is formally organized
1963: The Government Industry Law Center (GILC) is created (TCA 49-9-401)
1963: The Center for Industrial Services (CIS) is created (TCA 49-9-403)
1965: MTAS opens Memphis regional office
1966: MTAS formally divides state into regions
1967: Center for Government Training (CGT) is created by
Executive Order of the Governor
1967: Donald Sullivan becomes the first Executive Director of CGT
2000-2010
IPS continued to change with the times and developed many programs directed toward new safety threats occurring during these years. In 2001, the Center for Government Training was dissolved and IPS had under its domain MTAS, CTAS, CIS and LEIC. In 2009, the Naifeh Center for Effective Leadership was officially formed.
The year 2010 was significant for IPS with an organizational review that came at the request of interim UT President Jan Simek. A panel was organized to study the IPS role within the UT structure. After a lengthly review, the panel recommended that IPS should report directly to the UT president. Hear more from Dr. Joe Johnson, who served on the committee.
1990-2000
IPS established several endowments and had its first private fund-raising campaign, which was very successful. Additionally, some organizations had a tightening in the budget and started to charge for services. In 1997, the Southeastern Community Oriented Policing Education Institute was established to train law enforcement personnel and later became the Law Enforcement Innovation Center (LEIC).
1980-1990
As IPS was progressing in the ways to help, many smaller programs began to form during this decade. With more offices dispersing throughout the state each year help was becoming more available.
1970-1980
Dr. Edward Boling, president of the University of Tennessee, had an idea to establish an Institute for Public Service to assist governments and industries, much like the Institute of Agriculture helped farmers. Hear him discuss his vision. Boling was the budget director for the state of Tennessee and had worked with the University, therefore he knew how university expertise could be used around the state. Hear him talk about it.
The UT Board of Trustees accepted a recommendation by Boling in August 1971 to creat the Institute for Public Service. IPS became the umbrella organization for the Municipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS) which had helped Tennessee cities since its creation in 1949.
