Ilene Jones Cornwell

Background

Cornwell, Ilene Jones was born on September 27, 1942 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of Thurmond G. and Elizabeth (Furber) Jones.

Education

Student, University Tennessee, 1975. Student, Tennessee State University, 1987—1988. Student, Cumberland University, 1990.

Student, Nashville Travel Institute, 1991.

Career

Public information officer Tennessee History Commission, Nashville, 1974—1978. Publications editor, public information officer Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1978—1981. Writer, editor, owner Southern Resources Unlimited, 1981—1992.

Copy editor, editorial cartoonist West Nashville Digest, 1993—1994. Contributing editor and partner New South Architectural Press, Richmond, Virginia, 1993—1998. General editor, writer Serviceberry Press, Memphis, 1993—1998, since 2002.

Administrative assistant teacher education and Pew retention program Fisk University, Nashville, 1995—1997. Publications designer and typesetter Typography 2000, since 1995. Webmaster, HyperText Markup Language writer WebText 2000, 1995—2002.

Speaker, panelist Women in Media Committee, Saginaw State University, Michigan, 1990. Speaker, workshop leader Elderhostel, 1990, Austin Peay State University, 1990. Assistant to coordinator community education Cohn Adult Learning Center, Nashville, 1992-1993, program co-chair statewide women's history conference Shaping A State: The Legacy of Tennessee Women, Nashville, 1995.

Planning committee The Perfect 36 Exhibit Fisk University. Compiler special exhibit on 4 black suffragists. Founder Tennessee Womens Network, 1997, webmaster.

Speaker in field.

Achievements

• Ilene Jones Cornwell has been listed as a notable Writer, editor by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly, Volume IV, 1931-1951

    (Volume IV of the biographical information on all persons ...)

  • Footsteps along the Harpeth
  • Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly Volume V 1951-1971 ( Signed )
  • Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly Volume VI 1971-1991

Membership

Charter member West Nashville Founders' Museum, Nashville, 1987, board directors, 1989-1999, webmaster since 2000, secretary since 2005. Founding chairman Richland Creek Campaign, West Nashville Community Council, 1989-1990. Founder Bellevue-Harpeth History Society, 1970, 3-term president.

Natchez Trace program presenter International Conference on Pkwys., Riverways, and Greenways Asheville, North Carolina, 1989. Chair Natchez Trace Advisory Committee, Tennessee, 1990-2000. Activist Natchez Trace Pky.: Doomed to Become an Interstate Highway?, 1990-2000.

State judge Voice of Democracy student essay and scholarship contest, Veterans of Foreign Wars, 1992, Tennessee Department Education, Pencil student essay contest, 1994, history essay Tennessee students Tennessee History Commission, 1989-2000. Program co-chair Tennessee women's history symposium committee Vanderbilt University Women's Center, 1993-1995. Member Mayor Bill Purcell's Neighborhood History Preservation Committee, since 1999.

Member National League of America Pen Women (Nashville branch, former president, vice president, state convention chair), Tennessee Woman's Press and Authors Club (affiliate of National Federation of Press Women, president 1978, past vice president and chair state convention), White Bridge Neighborhood Association (charter, board directors), Tennessee Environmental Council, American Biographical Institute Research Association (selected associate advisory board 1990), Friends of Richland Creek (charter), National Women's History Project, National Museum of Women in Arts (charter), Tennessee Native Plant Society, Hypertext Markup Language Writers Guild, United States Caroliniana Society, Piedmont History Society, Old Pendleton History Society.

Connections

Married James H. Cornwell, March 2, 1963 (divorced 1977). Children: James David, Robert Grant.

Father:

Thurmond G. Jones

Mother:

Elizabeth (Furber) Jones

Spouse:

James H. Cornwell

child:

Robert Grant Cornwell

child:

James David Cornwell