Commission Administration

HAMMOND HONORED

Deborah Hammond, Berkeley County administrator has been honored by the West Virginia University Local Government Leadership Academy. Mrs. Hammond has been awarded the “certificate of distinction” for completing the Leadership Academy’s six core workshops and received certificates of achievement, excellence and distinction for her academy work which included the completion of twelve elective workshops.

Mrs. Hammond received her awards at the university’s recent Spring 2004 Leadership Academy session in Morgantown, West Virginia. The six core workshops were in public administration and leadership skills; financial management; conflict resolution; economic development; professional conduct; ethics; open meetings and Freedom of Information Act; and personnel management.

Mrs. Hammond has served as County Administrator since July 1996. She had previously served as the County’s Planning Director from 1993 through July 1996.

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Contact: Kevin M. Leyden, Ph.D.

Director, Institute for Public Affairs

304-293-5432; kleyden@wvu.edu

Local Government Official Receives Certificate of Highest Merit

Deborah Hammond, County Administrator of the Berkeley County Commission receives recognition

Morgantown, W.Va., April 4, 2007 – Nearly 100 local government officials from across the state gathered in Morgantown this past weekend at the Historic Clarion Hotel Morgan to attend the Spring 2007 session of the West Virginia University Local Government Leadership Academy, coordinated by the WVU Institute for Public Affairs. The two-day session included a series of three-hour workshops designed to develop and hone the leadership and governing skills of West Virginia’s city and county government officials.

On Saturday night, Deborah Hammond, County Administrator of the Berkeley County Commission was awarded West Virginia University’s “Certificate of Highest Merit” by completing the Local Government Leadership Academy’s six core workshops: “Public Management & Leadership Skills,” “Financial Management,” “Conflict Resolution,” “Economic Development,” “Professional Conduct: Ethics, Open-Meetings Law,” “Personnel Management,” and twenty-four elective workshops.

The West Virginia University Local Government Leadership Academy began operations in 2001, and currently has over 300 local government officials enrolled in its certificate program. The Institute for Public Affairs is a public service and research unit of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. The West Virginia University Local Government Leadership Academy is co-sponsored by the West Virginia Association of Counties, the County Commissioners Association of West Virginia, and the West Virginia Municipal League.