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RESTORING
LIVES WEST INC.
709 Lynhurst Drive
LBCCC: 317-402-5101
Website designed and hosted by Restoring Lives West
January 19, 2012
Board of Directors
Donna Simmons, President, Board of Directors
Donna is retired but continues to work with her consulting business, DGS Consulting, on a part time basis. She does leadership development, strategic planning, coaching, and placement of employees for companies.
Donna served on staff with American Baptist Churches of Indianapolis. She held the position as Director, Leadership and Communications. She began working with ABCGI in January 2006 and completed her work October 31, 2009.
Prior to coming to ABCGI, Donna took early retirement from AT&T in 2000 in which she was VP of Human Resources out of Chicago. She started her own consulting company, DGS Consulting in September 2000. She has worked both in the private sector and non for profit. Donna’s experience is in Human Resources, leadership development, executive and non executive coaching, strategic recruitment and hiring along with development of high performance teams.
Donna served as VP of the Board of Directors for ABCGI and then became President where she served in 2005-2006. She is a member of Westview Baptist Church in Indianapolis.
She has two children and three lovely grandchildren. She resides in Indianapolis, west of Speedway.
She was recently licensed to ministry on August 19, 2007.
Jerry Hoover, Vice President, Board of Directors
Following a 30+ career in Engineering and Management working for a variety of industries, Jerry has spent the last 2 years working with at-risk children. His activities include the following: working with developmentally challenged teen-aged boys at Damar (a residential treatment center), 1-on-1 reading tutor for 3-5 graders in IPS thru United Way’s Read-Up program, and serving as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for Marion County Child Advocates for children that have been removed from their homes by Child Protective Services.
Jerry has been active in his local church and denominational leadership in a variety of capacities over the past 25 years. He is currently serving on the Executive Committee of the Regional Board for his denomination.
He and his wife, Rev. Janet Hoover, have four grown children and are looking forward to grand parenting. Although they currently reside on the east-side of Indy, they were raised and spent much of their lives as “west-siders”. Jerry has served on the Board of Restoring Lives West since the fall of 2010.
Diane Meyer, Board of Directors
BUILDING THE FUTURE
