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HR director hired by DeKalb Community Service Board

By Mark Niesse
June 9, 2014

A nonprofit provider of DeKalb County mental health, addiction and developmental disability services has named a new chief human resources officer.

The DeKalb Community Service Board announced that Tia Plunkett-McQueen will take the job.

Plunkett-McQueen said in a statement that the board’s success will be fueled by a commitment to service delivery, innovation and employee engagement.

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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.

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