Ron Jackson was asked to serve as the interim commissioner of the Department of Technical and Adult Education by Governor Sonny Perdue on December 1, 2006. He joined the DTAE in December, 2004 as deputy commissioner.

Ron was the deputy director of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) from 2002 to 2004. Prior to that, he was OPB’s director of strategic planning, research and evaluation. While at OPB he served three governors and worked on many projects across state government, including strategic planning for the state and its government agencies. He was also closely involved with management of Georgia’s program and results-based budgeting, the development of the state’s new web-based financial management system and the Governor’s Legislative Tracking System, and he advised the Education Reform Study Commission.

His management talents were put on loan to the 1996 Summer Olympic Games as the Executive Assistant to the Commander of the State Olympic Law Enforcement Command. Earlier, Ron was the director of parole with the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles from 1991 until 1994, and was that was that agency’s director of field operations from 1990 to 1991. Ron began his professional career with the Texas Department of Corrections after graduating from Sam Houston State University in 1971 with a bachelor of science in criminal justice. From 1982 to 1990, he served on the Texas Parole Board as a Commissioner.

He also supervised the editing and publishing of the Texas Journal of Corrections and published several articles in professional journals and newsletters. In 1991, he co-authored the book Current Parole Practices: United States and Canada, which was published by the American Correctional Association.