Kenneth J. Tucker

Ken Tucker is Director, State and Local Government Relations, Southeast Region, for The Boeing Company. His responsibilities include representing the company at the local and state levels of government in all legislative, administrative and public agency matters in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi.

 

Ken is a native of Alabama. He earned a BA degree in American Studies and History from the University of Alabama in 1982, and received a Master of Administrative Science degree in Public Administration/Public Affairs from the University of Alabama Huntsville in 1984.

 

After graduate school, Ken was employed by the University of Alabama in Huntsville as their Director of Governmental Relations, representing the University and its interests before local, state and federal elected officials.

 

He joined Boeing in 1989 as a Public Affairs Specialist, with responsibility for community relations and local government relations. Since then, he’s held positions of increasing responsibility including Community and Education Relations Specialist, Government and Community Affairs Manager, and State and Local Government Relations Manager for Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. Ken was named to his current position in April 2004.

 

Ken is active in several professional and civic organizations at the local and state level. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Business Council of Alabama and the Alabama World Trade Association and on the Board of Governors of the Florida Chamber of Commerce. He also is a member of the Alabama Workforce Investment Board and the Huntsville Rotary Club. He formerly was a member of the Board of Directors for the Huntsville and Decatur Chambers of Commerce. He is a 1992 graduate of Leadership Huntsville/Madison County.

 

Ken resides in Huntsville with his wife Leigh and their three sons, Will, Jack and Clay.