Gwinnett County Administrator Glenn Stephens has appointed Kathy Holland as director of the Department of Planning and Development. The Board of Commissioners are expected to ratify her employment agreement. The department consists of planning, development and strategic infrastructure planning divisions.

Holland has served as the acting department director since November. She worked as a senior development review analyst at Gwinnett County for 15 years before leaving in 1997 to start her own consulting business. Holland returned to the county in 2002 as development review manager. She was promoted to development division director in Jan. 2005 and then became the department’s deputy director in March 2014.

Holland replaces Bryan Lackey, who left last year to become Gainesville’s city manager.