Twenty-five UGA employees retired Oct. 1. Retirees, their job classification, department and length of employment are:
Stephen P. Brady, senior public service associate, Cooperative Extension-Northwest District, 28 years/2 months; Scott N. Brown, senior public service associate, Cooperative Extension-Southwest District, 28 years/2 months; William L. Carlan, public service assistant, Cooperative Extension-Northeast District, 27 years; Willie O. Chance III, public service associate, Cooperative Extension-Southwest District, 27 years/1 month; Chung-Jan Chang, professor, plant pathology research-Georgia Experiment Station, 28 years/4 months; Mickey P. Cummings, senior public service associate, Cooperative Extension-Northeast District, 27 years/4 months; Randy Wallace Franks, public service associate, Cooperative Extension-Southeast District, 28 years/1 month; Patrick E. Harrell, research machinist, biological and agricultural engineering research, 37 years/1 month; Teresa B. Harvey, public service associate, Cooperative Extension-Southeast District, 28 years/3 months; Murray Wayne Jones, instrument maker, Office of the Vice President for Research-Services, 8 years/4 months; Carl Frederick Jordan, senior research scientist, School of Ecology, 35 years; Verna M. Kea, senior event coordinator, Cooperative Extension-Rural Development Center, 14 years/8 months; Lannie Lovett Lanier, district head, Cooperative Extension-Southeast District, 29 years/6 months; Dwaine Eddie McGriff, senior public service associate, Cooperative Extension-Southeast District, 26 years/4 months; Marta V. Mead, research technician III, Mountain Research and Education Center-Georgia Mountain Experiment Station, 30 years/2 months; Martha R. Partridge, public service assistant, Cooperative Extension-Northeast District, 31 years/2 months; David H. Payne, senior academic professional, English, 30 years/3 months; Charles E. Phillips, public service associate, Cooperative Extension-Northeast District, 26 years/7 months; John H. Pope, public service associate, Cooperative Extension-Northeast District, 28 years/11 months; Catherine S. Ragsdale, administrative associate I, psychology, 26 years; Jackie Seller, public service associate, biological and agricultural engineering, 25 years/ 5 months; Sherwood Mike Tiller, loan collection officer II, student accounts, 29 years/3 months; Alice N. Vernon, alumni officer II, alumni relations, 23 years/11 months; P. Gary Whitfield, carpenter, carpenter shop, 14 years/ 6 months; and Anne P. Young, director, Office of Communications, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, 22 years/3 months.