erobinson@moxleycarmichael.com

Ellen Robinson joined Moxley Carmichael with three decades of broad leadership experience in communications and government relations. As vice president, she is skilled in partnering with and counseling clients in the strategic use of communications and in devising corporate communications strategies that drive business results.

From 2001 to 2006 Robinson served as executive vice president of communications and government relations at the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public power producer with $8 billion in revenue. While at TVA, she served as the key communications advisor to the board of directors, planning and executing strategic communications to all of the agency’s stakeholders.

She previously served as senior vice president of communications and government affairs for CNH Global N.V., in Racine, Wisconsin. The company was created in 1999 with the merger of Case Corporation and New Holland N.V. From 1993 to 1999, Robinson served as vice president of communications and government affairs at Case. She joined Case in 1990 and worked in several capacities, including director of marketing communications for the North American Sales and Marketing organization.

Robinson joined Case from Burson-Marsteller in New York, where she was a vice president and a leader of the business-to-business marketing unit.

From 1979 to 1982, she worked in Washington for two public affairs consulting firms: Hager, Sharp & Abramson, Inc., and Alcalde, Henderson & O’Bannon. From 1982 to 1987, she managed communications for six product divisions of the Society of the Plastics Industry, based in New York City.

For a year prior to that Robinson served as the assistant to the co-chairman of the Republican National Committee in Washington. She began her career in 1976 with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she held several communications positions.

Robinson serves as a trustee of the Arthur W. Page Society and is a member of the Public Relations Seminar, organizations comprised of senior leaders in corporate communications. She is a graduate of the 2004 class of Leadership Knoxville and serves on their curriculum committee. She is on the board of the Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville and the Knoxville Symphony Society. Robinson is a trustee of the Knoxville Museum of Art and
is a member of the Executive Women’s Association. She was recently appointed to serve on the Advisory Board of the Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness in Knoxville and Knox County.

She earned a B.A. in journalism from the University of New Mexico in 1976 and a master’s in public administration from The American University in Washington, D.C., in 1978.