Kim Harmon to head Naifeh Center

Jay FitzOur Town Leaders

Kim Harmon, a long-time state of Tennessee employee, will serve as the next executive director of the Naifeh Center for Effective Leadership, an agency of The University of Tennessee Institute for Public Service (IPS). Harmon succeeds previous director Dr. Macel Ely who is now the director of organizational improvement for IPS. Harmon’s Naifeh Center tenure begins Feb. 1.

Since 2018, Harmon served as inspector general for the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration’s Office of Inspector General Division. From 2001-10 she served as a special agent in the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s (TBI) Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and from 2011-18, she was a special agent in charge for TBI’s training division. Harmon received her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Carson-Newman College and a master’s in professional studies from Tennessee State University.

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