Michelle Jones

Deputy Chief Michelle Jones has served with the Morristown Police Department since August 1998. She is currently assigned to the administration division, where she is responsible for overseeing special projects, statistical information gathering and analysis, assisting with the budgeting process, personnel allocation, and grant writing. She is the commander of the department’s Crisis Negotiation Team and the Public Information Officer Unit.

She holds a master’s degree in organizational management from Tusculum College; a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and a bachelor’ of science degree in business management from Carson-
Newman College, and earned an Associate of Arts degree from Walters State Community College. Chief Jones is also a graduate of the FBI’s Tennessee Law Enforcement Executive Development
training program. She has completed First-Line and Mid-Management training courses as well as the Department of Justice’s Law Enforcement Leader Survival Course, Leadership in Policing,
and Police Command Staff Workshop. In 2010, she graduated from the Southeastern Command and Leadership Academy of the University of Tennessee.