Wednesday, August 15, 2001
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Wednesday, August 15, 2001 |
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Judy Neal retires from state government For 34 years, Judy Neal served in state government, most recently as the executive director of the governor's Children and Youth Coordinating Council, a state agency committed to the prevention of juvenile delinquency. Neal, who is the mother of recent Fayette County Commission candidate Scott Gilbert, recently announced her retirement. In previous work with the state, Neal served as executive producer on a series of five films that, combined, won 12 Emmy Awards from the Southern Regional chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Neal is known well to Georgia's law enforcement, education, medical, judicial and legislative communities, and has already been named as an appointee of Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor to serve on the Blue Ribbon Young Drivers/DUI Study Commission chaired by Sen. Connie Stokes. She previously directed the Georgia Agrarian Development Authority in Tifton from December 1990 until she was asked by then-Gov. Zell Miller to assume the position of executive director of CYCC in 1993. Neal served as the assistant advertising director of Georgia Tourism in the late '80s. Before her three years at the Department of Industry, Trade and Tourism, she worked most of her career in the Georgia State Senate working for 14 of those years with Sen. Terrell Starr (Clayton County) who currently serves as president pro-tem of the Senate. Friends and family predict that Neal will never officially retire. She has already been called by one national recruiting firm but prefers to consult out of her home office providing services in the communications field including turnkey film and video production for documentaries, commercials, marketing presentations and communications campaigns. Teaming up with Dan Johnson, president of ImageMaster Productions Inc., who produced all of Neal's made for television productions, Neal can provide creative services and production for radio and print campaign components. She will also work nationally for NIAAA, a Washington, D.C. organization, that directs Keep Children Alcohol Free, an initiative that involves most of the country's first ladies.
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