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Steve Jenkins, former finance director and deputy city manager, dies after battling cancer

Posted at 1:14 pm March 16, 2017
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Steve Jenkins, former Oak Ridge finance director and deputy city manager, died Tuesday after battling cancer, according to his obituary. He was 67.

Jenkins grew up in Middlesboro, Kentucky, where he became a life-long University of Kentucky basketball fan. “He enjoyed nothing more than watching and attending UK games with his children and grandsons,” his obituary said.

Jenkins graduated from Clinton High School (1967) and the University of Tennessee (1971).

After beginning his career in finance at Carson Newman College, he moved his family to Oak Ridge, where he began a 26-year career at the City of Oak Ridge as finance director and deputy city manager.

After retiring from the city in 2012, Jenkins took a finance position at ETHRA in Knoxville, making many new friends who very caringly supported him through his illness, the obituary said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Government, Oak Ridge, Obituaries Tagged With: City of Oak Ridge, deputy city manager, finance director, Steve Jenkins

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