Yvonnia Brown has been recommended as the next director of Chatham County’s Department of Family and Children Services. The five-members local board, assisted by former agency director Earline Wesley Davis, selected Brown, 36, from among 11 candidates.
According to Van Johnson, chairman of the local board, a director is needed. He said it is now up to the state’s court to make it official. “Hopefully we will a have a new director in office by early next year,” Johnson said.
Brown, born in St. Georgia, SC, has been assistant director of operations for the St. Mary’s (Md.) Department of Social Services since July 2005. Prior to that, she was at the Department of Social Services in Dorchester County, SC.