acarmichael@moxleycarmichael.com

Alan Carmichael joined Moxley Carmichael as a partner in 1998. He has 30 years of experience in such areas as communications strategy and planning, government relations, media and community relations, employee and investor communications, public involvement, and marketing communications and advertising.

At Moxley Carmichael, he has worked on communications programs for several clients including Pilot, Knoxville Utilities Board, First Tennessee, Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation, Covenant Health, and U.S. Cellular, among others.

Before joining Moxley Carmichael, Carmichael was senior vice president of communications at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the nation’s largest power producer with revenues over $5 billion. He worked with TVA’s Board of Directors and senior management to develop and implement strategies aimed at building support for the company among TVA’s stakeholders. Carmichael managed relations with officials of federal, state and local governments, and communications with consumers and community leaders, TVA employees and the news media. Prior to becoming senior vice president, Carmichael was vice president of government relations.

Under his leadership, TVA communications employees won numerous national awards, including the prestigious Silver Anvil from the Public Relations Society of America in 1996 for a customer communications campaign. Carmichael also led the award-winning team that communicated a decade of stable electric rates at TVA.

Carmichael also managed TVA’s first-ever, multimillion dollar advertising campaign that included print, radio and television placements across the seven-state region served by the agency.

Before joining TVA, Carmichael was a reporter, Washington correspondent and assistant city editor at The Tennessean in Nashville from 1969 to 1980.

Carmichael is heavily involved in Knoxville community affairs. He is a graduate of the 2000 class of Leadership Knoxville. He is a former vice president of the board of the East Tennessee Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. He served on the Board of Directors of Ijams Nature Center from 1996 to 2002. Carmichael is a past president and member of the board of the East Tennessee Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and a member of the Public Relations Society of America. He served as chairman of the Society of Professional Journalists’ annual scholarship fund raiser, the Front Page Follies, in 1996 and from 1999 to 2004.

In 2004, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen named Carmichael to the Tennessee Commission on National and Community Service.

Carmichael is a Knoxville native and a 1969 journalism graduate of the University of Tennessee.