Chris Coughlin

Chris Coughlin has been selected as the new assistant city engineer for the city of Jackson. A native of Jackson, Coughlin holds a bachelor’s degree in engineer at Memphis State College – now the University of Memphis. He spent six years with Norfolk Southern Railways and then 33 years with the Jackson Energy Authority (JEA). Through his tenure at JEA, he held various management positions and worked on city infrastructure. He served as a project manager at Clark Engineering beginning in 2016 where his projects included a gas line pipeline for Blue Oval City.