Our Story

P&J’s founder, Ted Phillips, started his construction career as a teenager on a TVA clearing project in 1949. Three years later, he and his brother-in-law Ted Jordan came together to form Phillips & Jordan, Inc. and began laying the groundwork for decades of expansion. Our early construction efforts centered around clearing thousands of acres of land for the TVA throughout the Southeast, but throughout the 20th century we sought opportunities to build on that land clearing experience and break into new markets. 

Today, P&J continues to grow while holding on to our Smoky Mountain roots. Ted Phillips, Sr. passed in 2018, but his legacy continues. His wife Avis Phillips, who has supported P&J from the beginning and ran her own construction company Avisco from 1982-2017, has taken over as the Chairman of the Board, making P&J a woman-owned business. She has overseen internal changes restructuring us into a national enterprise, and with generations of P&J employees, both old and new, we continue to take on new challenges.