Alvin B. Jackson

Al Jackson works in business development and government relations. He is principal with The Jackson Group.

Jackson served briefly as a Utah State Senator. He was appointed in 2014 by Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert to fill a vacancy. He resigned in July 2016 to take a job out of state.

Jackson has been a leader in other business positions, such as Vice President, Sales and Marketing, for Insitu, Inc.; and as Director, Legislative Affairs for the Boeing Company where he primarily worked on issues concerning defense, foreign military sales, national security and commercial aviation.

He earned a BS degree in Aviation Business Administration from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.

He received the Embry-Riddle Graduate of the Last Decade Award 2000, the Distinguished Graduate Award from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. He also serves on the Embry Riddle University’s President’s Advisory Board, Brigham Young University’s Marriott Business School National Advisory Committee, and The Woodson Center.

Jackson also serves in a volunteer leadership (CEO) capacity for the Thomas Jefferson Center for Constitutional Studies, which educates citizens and government officials about the U.S. Constitution in the tradition of the Founding Fathers and to motivate and inspire the people to get involved.

Jackson and his wife, Juleen, are the parents of seven children, two of whom died in their infancies.