Chapelle Dabney Davis has been promoted to vice president, chief diversity officer, and director of the Bank's Office of Minority and Women Inclusion and Jeff Thomas has been promoted to vice president over the audit services office, announced Raphael Bostic, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Bostic also announced that Craig Griffin has been named assistant vice president and assistant general auditor, and Greg Odum has been named assistant vice president of the system center for audit development.

Davis joined the Atlanta Fed's supervision and regulation division in 1980 as an assistant examiner trainee and was promoted to examiner in 1984. She has served as assistant vice president in S&R since 1991, overseeing a number of areas including the bank and bank holding company applications and enforcement functions, the division's staff and fiscal management function, staff professional development, and crisis communication planning and implementation. She has also managed S&R's information technology examinations, operations risk examinations, and commercial bank and bank holding company examinations. Davis served as a charter member of the District Diversity Steering Group and the Bank's Executive Council on Diversity and Inclusion. She previously served as chair of the Bank's Diversity Advisory Council and currently serves as an executive sponsor for the Women Inspiring Success and Empowerment employee resource network.

Davis earned a bachelor's degree in business at Atlanta's Emory University with a major in accounting. She completed an executive education program at Northwestern University and is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Georgia.

Most recently Thomas served as assistant vice president over SCAD. He joined the Federal Reserve in 1988 as a training specialist in human resources. Thomas held a variety of positions with increasing responsibility in corporate relations and the automated clearinghouse function before becoming director of SCAD in 1996. He was promoted to assistant vice president and director of SCAD in 2009.

Thomas serves on the board of directors of the Center for Family Resources. He earned a bachelor's degree in public administration from Auburn University and attended the Payments Institute at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He completed executive development programs at Harvard University and Stanford University.

Griffin joined the Atlanta Fed in 1988 in the Birmingham Branch's audit department. He transferred to the Atlanta office in 1992 and earned positions of increasing responsibility. He was promoted to director in 2007. His recent responsibilities have included audits of District retail payments operations and District technology, including automation projects. Griffin earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Auburn University and a master of business administration from Samford University in Birmingham. He holds the Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor, and Project Management Professional certifications.

Odum joined the Atlanta Fed's Jacksonville Branch as a management associate in 1987. He held various management roles in security services until 1990, when he transferred to the Jacksonville Branch's audit department. In 2005, he moved to Atlanta and continued his career in audit. Most recently, Odum was responsible for audit coverage of several Bank divisions, as well as coordination of audit and operational risk committee activities. He has provided leadership on numerous District and System audit initiatives and has completed two Board of Governors rotational assignments. Odum earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of North Florida and is a Certified Internal Auditor.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta serves the Sixth Federal Reserve District, which encompasses Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and sections of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. As part of the nation's central banking system, the Atlanta Fed participates in setting national monetary policy, supervises numerous commercial banks, and provides a variety of financial services to depository institutions and the U.S. government.