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Standing down
David Maxwell prepares to retire, and learn to relax, after a decade as state’s emergency management director
Story By Jennifer Barnett Reed For County Lines Photos Courtesy of Arkansas Department of Emergency Management
But there’s a part of him that’s remained firmly rooted in the past as well — to the years he spent on the front lines of disaster response, to very real afternoons spent with desperate people who looked to him to make things better. Maxwell is set to retire June 30, 10 years after he was appoint- ed director by former Gov. Mike Huckabee and nine-and-a-half
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s the man responsible for planning how the state will respond to every conceivable kind of disaster, Department of Emergency Management Director David Maxwell has learned to live in the “what if” world of an unimaginable future.
years after he’d originally planned to hang up his hat. In that decade, Maxwell brought stability back to the department, which had gone through three directors in the two years before he took the post. He oversaw the construction of a badly needed state-of- the-art emergency management facility at Camp Robinson. He put a lot of effort into repairing the department’s relationships with Arkansas’ 75 county judges, which had also gone through a rocky stretch for a few years. He served a one-year term as presi- dent of the National Emergency Management Association, and he has served on a number of national committees related to emergency management.
COUNTY LINES, SPRING 2016
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