Mark S. Watson

Affiliation

City of Oak Ridge

Biography

Dr. Mark S. Watson is a second generation local government city manager with a 45-year career. He has served as City Manager of seven cities in Texas, Montana, Arizona, and now in Oak Ridge, Tennessee since August 2010. Dr. Watson is a PhD graduate of the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Kansas. He has worked with many branches of the federal government as City Manager including the BOR, BLM, DOE, NNSA, USFS, NPS, Army, Marines, Border Patrol and International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC).