- Collection:
- Georgia Government Publications
- Serial:
- News release (Georgia Department of Labor)
- Title:
- News release, Apr. 28, 1998
- Creator:
- Georgia. Department of Labor
- Contributor to Resource:
- Georgia. Department of Labor.
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Dept. of Labor, 1998-04-28
- Date of Original:
- 1998-04-28
- Subject:
- Georgia. Department of Labor--Periodicals
Labor--Georgia--Periodicals - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- state government records
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Title from caption
Each issue also has a distinctive theme title - External Identifiers:
- Call Number GA L200 .P1 N45 1998/4-28
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_ggpd_i-ga-bl200-b-pp1-bn45-b1998-s4-h28-belec-p-btext
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ggpd_i-ga-bl200-b-pp1-bn45-b1998-s4-h28-belec-p-btext
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- University of Georgia. Map and Government Information Library
- Rights:
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Georgia Department of Labor
Suite 642 148 International Boulevard N.E. Atlanta, Georgia 30303-1751 (404)656-3032
April 28, 1998
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RICHARDS NAMED DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES
AT GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
ATLANTA -- State Labor Commissioner Marti Fullerton has named Kendall Richards of Rockdale County director of the Georgia Department of Labor's human resources division. She is responsible for the personnel functions of about 1,800 employees who staff the department's 53 offices statewide and the central office in Atlanta.
"We are pleased to have Kendall back at the labor department," Fullerton said. "She was with the department as a personnel analyst in the mid-1980s before joining the state merit system. For the past four years, she has been an assistant division director of the merit system. She was there through the design and implementation of Georgia Gain, and her extensive training and experience in customer service will be a tremendous asset to the agency." Georgia Gain is a program designed to revamp the state's personnel system.
Born in St. Augustine, Fla., Richards, 54, spent her childhood in Taliaferro County, Ga. She is a 1962 graduate of Alexander Stephens Institute, a now-defunct public school in Crawfordville. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in psychology and sociology from the Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville and a master's degree in social work from the University of Georgia in Athens.
In 1966, she began her career in state government with the Laurens County Department of Family and Children Services (DFACS) in Dublin. Later, she worked with DFACS in various positions in Columbus, Savannah and Crawfordville. From 1983-1986, she was a personnel analyst with the departments of human resources, labor and the merit system. Then, she served as a program manager with the merit system before becoming an assistant division director of classification and compensation and later customer services.
Richards is a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D. C., the State Personnel Council, the International Personnel Management Association, and the Georgia Chapter of the International Association of Personnel in Employment Security (IAPES), a professional organization of state labor departments. She is vice-president of membership for the Conyers/Rockdale Chapter of International Toastmasters, and president of her high school's alumni association, which is planning a 1999 reunion. She is married to George A. Richards, a native of Taliaferro County. The couple resides in Conyers, but owns and operates an antique shop in Crawfordville.
NEWS MEDIA NEEDING MORE INFORMATION MAY CALL (404) 656-3032 E-mail: communications@dol.state.ga.us.
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