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Department of Corrections
Holden Promoted to Director of Population Management
Kentucky Department of Corrections Commissioner LaDonna Thompson today announced the promotion of Paula Foree Holden to the position of Director of Population Management. Holden has been serving in this area as Assistant Director since January 2009.
In the Director’s role, Holden will monitor and coordinate inmate population and transfer issues in DOC prisons and county jails. She will assume the Director’s title on January 1.
“We are fortunate to be able to promote someone with Holden’s extensive Corrections experience. She is a valuable asset to us,” said Thompson. “Paula is not only well respected throughout the Department, she is well respected throughout the entire state with everyone she comes in contact with, especially the jail and court staffs we work so closely with on a daily basis.”
Holden is a 1981 graduate of Murray State University where she majored in Criminal Justice and Corrections. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and was named the outstanding graduating senior in Corrections. While attending Murray State University, Holden completed two intern placements, one with Calloway County Juvenile Court and one with the Kentucky State Reformatory (KSR).
Holden began her employment with the Department of Corrections at KSR in May 1978 where she was employed as a clerical assistant for three summers while attending college.
Holden began full-time employment as a Correctional Officer at KSR in April 1982. Holden was promoted to Classification/Treatment Officer in 1983 at Luther Luckett Correctional Complex. While at Luther Luckett, Holden also worked as an Offender Rehabilitation Specialist and Correctional Unit Administrator I.
In January 1993, Holden transferred to Roederer Correctional Complex in the Assessment/Classification Center. Holden was promoted to Corrections Unit Administrator II and then to Program Administrator of the Assessment/Classification Center.
In December 2003, Holden was promoted to Deputy Warden III at Roederer and she served in that position until accepting the promotion at Central Office to oversee the Department’s inmate population management. She was the 2005 recipient of the “Deputy Commissioner’s Award for Adult Institutions.”
Holden and her husband Bob reside in Sulphur with their daughter Jordan, a sophomore at Northern Kentucky University.
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