Carl D. Perkins Job Corps is pleased to announce that Paula Davis, former finance &administration director at the center, has been named the new center director. She assumed her CD duties on Aug. 5. Davis succeeds Thomas Rainey, who resigned to take a new position as director of technical support and training with the Odle Management Group.

Davis, a resident of Prestonsburg, KY, received her master’s degree in business administration from Sullivan College. She is married to Carmel “Rowdy” Davis, and they have five children.

Davis has been at Perkins Job Corps 16 years, beginning her employment here in June 2000 as the finance manager and was promoted to student records manager in 2007. In 2008, Davis was promoted to finance & administration director.

Davis has been a member of the Floyd County Chamber of Commerce for several years, and is a 2011 graduate of the Chamber’s Leadership Floyd County. She has served on the Floyd County Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors for the past three years.