LTC (R) Scott Jeffress

Lieutenant Colonel Scott Jeffress graduated from Dartmouth College in 1990 with a degree in History and was commissioned through the Army ROTC program as a Signal Corps (Communications) officer. He is also a graduate of both the U.S. Army Command & General Staff College and the School for Advanced Military Studies, earning two master’s degrees in Military Arts and Sciences.

During a 22-year career, he served in numerous command and staff roles throughout the United States (including Alaska) and overseas in South Korea and Germany; he also spent six months in Macedonia with the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP).

In two assignments with the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), he deployed to Somalia in 1993 as part of Operation Restore Hope; and to Baghdad, Iraq in 2006-2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Immediately upon his return from Iraq, in November 2007 he and his family moved to Johnson City, TN, where he served as ETSU’s Professor of Military Science until June 2012.

Since retiring from the Army on October 1 of that year, he has been the director of ETSU’s Roan Scholars Leadership Program. He also volunteers with numerous organizations and serves on the boards of several local non-profits. Lieutenant Colonel Jeffress and his wife, Barbara, live in Johnson City and have three children: Hannah, Colin, and Julia.