Governor’s Office of Highway Safety
GOHS ANNOUNCES MANAGEMENT TEAM CHANGES FOR 2007
NEW DEPUTY DIRECTOR & PLANNING DIRECTOR NAMED
(ATLANTA) Director Bob Dallas of the Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety is pleased to announce that Spencer R. Moore has been named as the new Deputy Director of GOHS. Mr. Moore, who has been employed in positions of leadership with the agency for the last nine years, assumes fulltime administrative duties as Deputy Director on March 1st, 2007.
The new Deputy Director is a graduate of Atlanta’s Morehouse College and holds an MBA. Spencer Moore is the former Division Director of Planning and Programs at GOHS where he has managed a fulltime staff and multi-million dollar budget with responsibilities for overseeing statewide lifesaving highway safety programs. As a Project and Division Director, Mr. Moore has received national recognition from MADD, the International Association of Chief’s of Police, and the National Commission Against Drunk Driving for conducting the most comprehensive impaired driving and speed countermeasure programs in the country.
Today’s management team announcement comes as former GOHS Deputy Director Rob Mikell leaves the state highway safety agency to join the Georgia Department of Driver Services. Mikell, who was appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue to GOHS in 2003, has been named by Commissioner Greg Dozier as the new Deputy Commissioner of DDS, effective March 1st.
Rob Mikell earned his law degree from Washington and Lee University Law School and is a former Deputy Chief Assistant Solicitor-General for DeKalb County where he specialized in DUI prosecutions. Mikell holds a national reputation as an expert in traffic safety having worked on statewide public safety projects involving the Teenage and Adult Driving Responsibility Act (TADRA), the Alcohol and Drug Awareness Program (ADAP), Joshua’s law, and mature driver issues. He also lead the 2005 Implied Consent Notice Task Force whose work helped passage of House Bill 1275, enhancing the ability of law enforcement officers to identify and prosecute impaired drivers.
Also effective March 1st is the appointment of 19-year veteran GOHS employee Linda Bradford as the new Division Director of Planning and Programs. She is a graduate of Atlanta’s Clarke College and holds a Masters in Social Work. Prior to her promotion, Ms. Bradford was a Planner III in the GOHS Planning and Programs Section. She now steps into the position vacated by the appointment of Deputy Director Moore and will oversee and execute agency grant and contract procedures.
“Rob Mikell has proven a tremendous asset during his time at the Governor's Office of Highway Safety,” said GOHS Director Bob Dallas. “We look forward to a continued close working relationship with him and our safe driving partners at DDS. Meanwhile, we at GOHS are extremely fortunate to retain the expertise of long-time highway safety experts like Spencer Moore and Linda Bradford who will step into their new roles of lifesaving and leadership.”
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Sonny Perdue, Governor Robert F. Dallas, Director