Stephanie Dedmon

Stephanie Dedmon was named CIO for the State of Tennessee in October 2018. In this role she is responsible for all operational areas of the state’s central IT organization, Strategic Technology Solutions. This includes managing the team’s IT service delivery, technical infrastructure development and support and customer service management and a workforce of almost 1200 IT professionals.

As Deputy CIO, Dedmon was previously responsible for the Enterprise IT Transformation (EIT) initiative that furthered the State’s enterprise IT organization by transitioning over 800 Executive Branch Department IT employees to STS. Prior to being named Deputy CIO in November of 2015, Dedmon served as the Director of Business Solutions Delivery (BSD), also within the Department of Finance & Administration. BSD was created in late 2011 to build a team of experienced senior project directors, project managers and business analysts to help lead the state’s most complex IT/business solution implementations and improve project delivery success rates.

Prior to joining the State in 2005, Dedmon was an Associate Partner with Accenture in Nashville and served as project director on many public sector software implementations. She holds a Master of Business Administration from Tennessee Technological University (TTU) in Cookeville, Tennessee, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, also from TTU. She achieved her Project Management Professional certification in August of 2012.

Dedmon is a member of the National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO), where she serves as Vice President of the Executive Committee and as Co-Chair of the Innovation Committee. She is a member of the Greater Nashville Technology Council, where she serves as the Diversity and Inclusion Committee Chair and is a Board Member. She is also an active member of Women in Technology in Tennessee and the Nashville Project Management Institute (PMI) chapter. Dedmon was the recipient of the George H. Bass award for Leadership in Tennessee State Government in October 2019, and was also awarded CIO of the Year at the Greater Nashville Technology Council’s 12th Annual NTC Awards in April 2021. Most recently in September 2021, she was recognized by Nashville’s Women in Numbers as one of three Women of Impact for supporting the community and guiding others through the current pandemic.