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OKLAHOMA CAPITOL -- Heidi Mitchell has been named Director of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services Finance Budget Unit, effective June 1. Mitchell replaces Adam Barber who left OKDHS In May to become chief financial officer for the Oklahoma Department of Commerce.
In naming Mitchell to the position, OKDHS Chief Financial Officer Phil Motley said, “I am pleased that Mitchell is willing to take on this important responsibility in our organization. She is extremely qualified to assume all duties of the Budget Unit.
“Our organization is currently at the crossroads where getting the OKDHS fiscal 2005 work plan in place is crucial as we close out fiscal ’04 business. And we are already on the heels of forecasting the preliminary numbers for fiscal year 2006. The experience she brings to the position tells me she is up to the leadership challenge ahead and we are pleased to have her.”
In her new position Mitchell will oversee operations for the OKDHS $1.4 billion annual budget.
“This is a very positive career move and I am grateful that Phil Motley and the OKDHS leadership have offered me this tremendous opportunity. This is one of the busiest times of the year in a state government budget office and I know the team that’s in place and together, I have faith that we can handle the budget challenges that come our way.”
Before joining the OKDHS Finance team in 2002, Mitchell worked for a year at Fleming Foods in Oklahoma City. Before moving to Oklahoma in 2001, Mitchell was senior accountant for the Alabama division of Sysco Foods.
The Memphis native started her undergraduate work at the University of Memphis. She earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Mitchell and her husband, Keith, who’s an executive for a local insurance company, live in Edmond, and have one daughter, Madison, age 8.
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