Search committee named for Swainsboro Tech president

DTAE Interim Commissioner Ron Jackson has announced the creation of a nine-member search committee whose job will be to select three candidates for consideration to be the next president of Swainsboro Technical College. The new president will replace Dr. Glenn Diebert, who left the college in August to become president of Southwest Georgia Technical College in Thomasville.

“Swainsboro Tech provides great opportunities for its students to prepare for rewarding careers in Georgia’s workforce, and we expect the next president to be the kind of leader who can build upon the college’s record of achievement,” said Jackson. “We’re very grateful to the members of the search committee for their dedication to the college and for offering their time and expertise to assist the state in this important process.”

The committee will be chaired by Ken Warnock, who is also the chairman of the Swainsboro Chamber of Commerce. The entire interview and selection process is expected to take four to six months, beginning with a job announcement and an open application period, which began last week. After completion

of their local interviews, the committee will refer three candidates on to personal meetings with Jackson at DTAE’s Atlanta headquarters.

Jackson’s final selection must be approved by the state Board of Technical and Adult Education, whose members are appointed by the Governor to oversee the operation of the agency.

Also named to the committee were Jerry Cadle of the Cadle Law Firm in Swainsboro; Chuck Ellington, Treutlen County school superintendent; Kenneth Griffin, general manager for the Georgia Power Company in Swainsboro; Pam Griner, chair of Swainsboro Tech Board of Directors; Wayne Herringdine, president of the Bank of Wrightsville; Paula Herrington, director of the Millen-Jenkins County Chamber of Commerce; Erma Jenkins, the Emanuel County assistant school superintendent; and Courtney Terwilliger, the director of EMS services at the Emanuel Medical Center.

Dr. Richard Thornton will continue to serve as interim president at Swainsboro Tech until the new president is selected.

Swainsboro Tech serves Candler, Emanuel, Jenkins, Johnson and Treutlen counties. In addition to the main Swainsboro campus, the college also operates the Jenkins County Center in Millen and the Treutlen County Workforce Development Center in Soperton. A total of 1,280 students were enrolled in credit classes during the college’s 2006 fiscal year. Another 867 students took non-credit classes during that year.

The Department of Technical and Adult Education is the state agency responsible for the governance of the 34 colleges that make up the Technical College System of Georgia. The department also administers the state's adult literacy programs and Georgia Quick Start, an economic development program dedicated to workforce training.

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