Leonard K. Bradley

Lecturer in Education

M.A., University of Tennessee, 1972

Short Biography

Leonard Bradley comes to us from an extensive career in policy development in state government. Most recently, for the past five years, he has been teaching political science at Tusculum College, a small college established in East Tennessee in 1794. In his former life, Leonard served as chief policy assistant for three Democratic and Republican governors, starting when he was 30 and ending when he was 55. Otherwise, he held high-level policy positions with the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury, the Tennessee Department of Human Services, and the Tennessee General Assembly.

Leonard also was a Vice Chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents. Governor Sundquist appointed him vice-chair of the Council on Excellence of Higher Education, a study which the Peabody Center staffed. He is a member of the board of visitors of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee and is a close informal advisor to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. He has served on dozens of state government boards and study councils, including several staff assignments with the National Governors Association and the U.S. Office of Management and Budget before he was 30.

Leonard is a board member of several non-profit social service organizations. For his efforts in designing Tennessee's own version of welfare reform, he received an award for service from the Tennessee Conference on Social Welfare. He holds a Career Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Public Administration.

While at Tusculum College, in addition to teaching, Leonard established and directed a leadership institute in which he worked daily with accomplished, full-scholarship undergraduate students. He also directed the college's internship program, placing students on the Tennessee governor's legislative staff each year.

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