Murfreesboro City Manager Rob Lyons has been elected president of the Tennessee City Management Association (TCMA), a statewide group of city managers who focus on education and training for municipalities.

Lyons was elected on June 12 at the board's annual business meeting in Gatlinburg during the annual conference of the Tennessee Municipal League (TML). He will take office on July 1.

During the 2015-16 Fiscal year, Lyons served as vice president of TCMA and replaces Kirk Bednar, City Manager of Brentwood, who previously served as president. Lyons was hired as Assistant City Manager of Murfreesboro in 1997 and promoted to City Manager in 2009.

Founded in 1964, the Tennessee City Management Association (TCMA) is a professional association of 160 appointed city and town managers, administrators and their principal assistants serving in 78 local governments across the State of Tennessee. In addition, representatives of the University of Tennessee Municipal Technical Advisory Service (UT-MTAS), the agency that provides technical assistance to cities and towns across the State, are agency members of TCMA http://www.tncma.org/.

TCMA believes cities and towns in Tennessee operate best in a system where qualified, trained professional managers work together with local elected officials to accomplish community goal and objectives. TCMA provides professional development opportunities for its members through educational conferences and the timely transfer of knowledge, information, data and the best municipal government practices to its members.

In 2017, the TML Conference will be held in Murfreesboro.