Janet Hails
Administrative Specialist
Janet Hails joined the LEIC in June 2008. She came to the LEIC from the Office of the Chancellor at UTK, where she had been employed since 2005. While in the Office of the Chancellor, her duties included preparing appointment letters for new faculty, providing support to several search committees, preparing travel reimbursements, and other financial transactions using the IRIS System.
Prior to moving to Knoxville, Janet lived in Homewood, Alabama (near Birmingham). During her years in Alabama she worked at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) Medical Center as secretary to the Director of Surgery, and later as secretary to the Dean of the Department of Nutrition Sciences. While her children were young, Janet left working full-time, but she did have a part-time position as Director of children’s music at a school and church in Birmingham. Upon returning to full-time employment in 1998, she became Assistant to the Director of Student Records at Cumberland School of Law of Samford University. Among her duties at Cumberland she maintained student files; scheduled classrooms, conference rooms, and student courtrooms (using a campus data base system); advised students regarding their schedules; prepared the law school portion of bar and post-graduate applications; certified students for graduation; and helped students resolve matters of concern regarding their records or grades. She also assisted with course registration and semester grade entry.
Hails attended the University of Tennessee, where she majored in Music (voice).
Phone: (865) 946-3211
Toll Free: (866) 449-5342
Fax: (865) 946-3214
janet.hails@tennessee.edu