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jenny and her husband, frank, smile on vacation with a desert landscape in the background
Jenny and her husband, Frank Fowler.
Jenny looks on as a fisheries ranger holds a netted fish in a creek and explains the work the fishery rangers do.
In this Experience Your Smokies class, Jenny went wading with fishery rangers and learned about the Brook Trout and other native fish species in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Jenny poses outside in a group photo with 24 other members of the Experience Your Smokies class of 2025.
Jenny graduated with the 2025 cohort of the Experience Your Smokies program.
Jenny Fowler holding a plaque that shows 30 years of service to the University of Tennesee.
Jenny was recognized for 30 years of service to the University of Tennessee.

A Knox County resident for more than 30 years, I raised my family in Fountain City. District 19 has been my home since 2016, and I live in the Seven Islands area.

I worked as a Distinguished Lecturer of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for over thirty years until my retirement in 2024. I served as an elected representative to the University of Tennessee Faculty Senate for 7 years, and was in the first slate of non-tenure track representatives. I also served as an elected or appointed representative on many other university, college, and departmental task forces and committees.

I am a hiking enthusiast, having hiked all the maintained trails in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (900 Miler Club), am a member of the Smoky Mountain Hiking Club, and am a class of 2026 alumnus of the Experience Your Smokies advocacy program. I enjoy exercising at the Carter Senior Center and hiking and kayaking at Seven Islands State Birding Park.

My husband, Frank Fowler, and I are active members of Central United Methodist Church in downtown Knoxville. We have two adult, married sons and two grandchildren.

I was raised in a small-town rural farming area in southern Ohio, and I am a graduate of The Ohio State University and the University of Kentucky, with a Master’s in Mathematics. My family on both sides owned farms in Fayette and Highland counties in Ohio, and my father still owns his family farmland, growing soybeans and corn.  My parents were self-employed owners of a dental practice, Dad as a dentist and Mom as his dental hygienist, serving our small Ohio community with pride. Both of my grandfathers were teachers, and one was a local historian and volunteer fireman in Fayette County, Ohio.