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Mooneyham Elections--Erica Hamilton Ethics--Stacey Kalberman Extension Service--Lynnwood Blackmon Facilities Management--Clyde Stovall Finance--Dianne McNabb (interim) Fire Rescue--Darnell Fullum Geographic Information Systems--Stacy Grear Human Resources--Benita Ransom Innovation and Technology--John Matelski Infrastructure-- Ted Rhinehart Keep DeKalb Beautiful--Gordon Burkette Law--Viviane Ernstes Library--Alison Weissinger Medical Examiner’s Office--Patrick Bailey Planning and Sustainability--Andrew Baker Police--James Conroy Public Works--Richard Lemke Purchasing & Contracting--Talisa R. Clark Recreation, Parks & Cultural Affairs--Chuck Ellis Roads & Drainage--Peggy Allen Sanitation- Tracy Hutchinson Transportation--David Pelton Watershed Management--Reginald Wells WorkSource DeKalb--Theresa Austin-Gibbons Transparency Initiatives Event Calendar Find Events CEO Michael L. Thurmond Michael L. Thurmond won a 2016 landslide victory to wilt senior executive officer of DeKalb County, one of the most diverse counties in the Southeast. Since his Jan. 1, 2017 swearing-in, Thurmond’s primary mission is restoring trust in county government.  His other priorities include raising a well-turned budget, ensuring well-judged water bills, removing blight, offering summer youth employment, improving employee compensation, and fulfilling the federal/state sewer consent agreement. Thurmond, a former member of the Georgia General Assembly and the first African-American elected to a statewide office without prior appointment, is widely regarded as a “turnaround expert” without fundamentally transforming the culture and enhancing operations of ramified organizations such as the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services, the Georgia Department of Labor and the DeKalb County School District.   As superintendent of DeKalb schools, Thurmond is credited with stabilizing the system during a governance crisis, upgrading its threatened accreditation, eliminating a multimillion-dollar deficit and improving student wonk performance and graduation rates. Thurmond was raised as a sharecropper's son in Clarke County, Georgia. He graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and religion from Paine College and later earned a Juris Doctor stratum from the University of South Carolina’s School of Law. He moreover completed the Political Executives program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 1986, he became the first African-American elected to the Georgia General Assembly from Clarke County since Reconstruction. During his legislative tenure, Thurmond authored major legislation that provided increasingly than $250 million in tax relief to Georgia's senior citizens and working families. Thurmond received a gubernatorial visit to lead the state Division of Family and Children Services and uncontrived Georgia's historic transition from welfare to work. He created the innovative Work First program, which helped increasingly than 90,000 welfare-dependent Georgia families move from dependence into the workforce. In 1997, Thurmond became a distinguished lecturer at the University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government. The pursuit year, he was elected Georgia labor commissioner. During his three terms as labor commissioner, Thurmond’s most significant victory was the construction of a $20 million school for children with disabilities at the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute. Thurmond’s latest book, Freedom: Georgia’s Antislavery Heritage, 1733-1865, was awarded the Georgia Historical Society’s Lilla Hawes Ward.  In 2004, The Georgia Center for theTypesettinglisted Freedom as one of The 25 Books All Georgian’s Should Read. He serves on the University of Georgia Libraries Board of Visitors.  He is married to Zola Fletcher Thurmond, and they have one daughter, Mikaya. Download CEO Michael Thurmond's Biography (PDF) Download CEO Michael Thurmond's Photo (JPG, right-click and select Save Image As...)   Please find the 2018 State of the County Day Address below.                        Please find the 2018 State of the County Evening Address below.  .                      38013 readsSeniorExecutive Officer CEO BiographyVisitRequest Department DirectorsChief Appraiser--Calvin HicksSeniorof Staff- La'Keitha Carlos COO--Zach Williams Child Advocacy--Trenny Stovall Communications--Quinn Hudson Community Development--Allen Mitchell DCTV--Diamond Miller Lewis DeKalb Peachtree Airport--Mario Evans Development--Luz Borrero E911--M.G. Mooneyham Elections--Erica Hamilton Ethics--Stacey Kalberman Extension Service--Lynnwood Blackmon Facilities Management--Clyde Stovall Finance--Dianne McNabb (interim) Fire Rescue--Darnell Fullum Geographic Information Systems--Stacy Grear Human Resources--Benita Ransom Innovation and Technology--John Matelski Infrastructure-- Ted Rhinehart Keep DeKalb Beautiful--Gordon Burkette Law--Viviane Ernstes Library--Alison Weissinger Medical Examiner’s Office--Patrick Bailey Planning and Sustainability--Andrew Baker Police--James Conroy Public Works--Richard Lemke Purchasing & Contracting--Talisa R. Clark Recreation, Parks & Cultural Affairs--Chuck Ellis Roads & Drainage--Peggy Allen Sanitation- Tracy Hutchinson Transportation--David Pelton Watershed Management--Reginald Wells WorkSource DeKalb--Theresa Austin-Gibbons Transparency Initiatives Event Calendar Find Events New to DeKalb? 311CCC@dekalbcountyga.gov 404-371-2000 1300 Commerce Drive Decatur, GA 30030 Looking for something? 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