(Dallas, GA) – On Tuesday, August 26, 2025, Paulding County Emergency Management Agency Deputy Director Eve Cogsdell was recognized by the Paulding County Board of Commissioners on her recent accomplishment of completing all requirements set forth in the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency (GEMA/HS) Professional Manager Program.

Deputy Director Cogsdell was presented with a certificate from GEMA/HS Area 6 Field Coordinator Tim Reeve. During his presentation, Tim Reeve explained, since the beginning of the Professional Certified Emergency Manager Program there have only been 116 Emergency Managers throughout the State of Georgia who reached this level of professionalism, with 38 of those actively serving. The requirements for the certification include:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience
• Over 500 hours of continuing education in a variety of disciplines and specialties from

mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery

• Full-scale exercise development, implementation and after-action reporting
• A minimum of 5 contributions to the emergency management profession through teaching,

research, special projects, public speaking and/or published articles.

Paulding County EMA Director Stephen Dooley comments “Deputy Director Cogsdell has assisted and led numerous projects including having lead responsibility for communications resources and managing our EMA Volunteer Divisions, she is an asset to our agency”.