Cline Jones

Cline Jones, Executive Director, Tennessee River Valley Association

A resident of Athens, Alabama, Cline Jones is a native of north Alabama, where he has spent all his life in, on and around the Tennessee River.

In addition to being the executive director of the Tennessee River Valley Association and the Tennessee-Cumberland Waterways Council, he is chairman-elect of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Regional Resources Stewardship Council. He serves on the Alabama Water Resources Commission and is the board chair of the Coalition of Alabama Waterway Associations.

Jones is a former treasurer and executive committee member of the National Waterways Conference, a former board chair of Energy Fairness.org and a former member of the board of directors of Inland Rivers, Ports and Terminals. He served as a participating alternate member of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s 2019 Integrated Resource Plan Working Group and served on the Alabama Water Agencies Working Group’s focus panel on certificates of use, permitting and interbasin transfers.