The Association of State Floodplain Managers
(ASFPM) announced that Deborah Mills, CFM, has been named a Foundation Fellow. The
ASFPM Foundation began its Fellows Program to provide an opportunity for
long-standing supporters to remain engaged and active in supporting the
organization’s mission of promoting education and policies that mitigate losses
caused by flooding. Mills was selected based on her long-time commitment to ASFPM
and the emergency management and hazard mitigation industry.
Mills is an associate and emergency management
senior specialist for Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, in
its resilience solutions group. She is based in the firm’s Richmond, Virginia,
office but spends much of her time traveling on assignments under the firm’s
various Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) contracts. She is a former
Virginia State Hazard Mitigation Officer and Recovery Division Director with
more than two decades of FEMA Hazard Mitigation and Public Assistance (PA) program
management experience. Mills is a national subject matter expert on hazard mitigation.
She is the third Dewberry employee to be named a Foundation Fellow.
A graduate of West Virginia University, Mills
earned a bachelor’s degree in forest management (1978), and has gone on to be
published more than 40 times. Previous awards and recognitions include the 1996
Richmond Woman of the Year award, Richmond Association of Business Women; 1999
Humanitarian Award, Department of Conservation & Recreation; the 2007
Certificate of Commendation for Leadership for the Enhanced Hazard Mitigation
Plan, Virginia Department of Emergency Management; and the 2013 ASFPM Jerry
Louthian Award for Distinguished Service.
