Career Diploma Faculty

Ashworth College boasts an experienced full-time faculty and administrative staff along with a team of off-site professional educators. Our educators are practicing professionals in their fields. They are eager to share their real-world knowledge with each and every student by contributing to course development and content and providing advice and instructional support to our tutorial staff.

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Kenny Adkins
Kenny Adkins teaches Carpentry as a correspondence course for the Ashworth Career School. A professional carpenter with 28 years experience, he has taught the trade for ten years. Kenny was drawn to the field because he likes working with his hands and takes pride in being able to produce something that "I can point to and say I did that." Read expanded profile

Specialty: Carpentry

Jill W. Andersen
Jill is an experienced preschool and elementary school teacher. She has a master's degree in reading education.

Specialty: Writing Children's Books

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Mike Brennan
Mike is a lifetime gun enthusiast. He has years of experience in shooting and hunting, as well as teaching and doing custom work on handguns, rifles, and shotguns.
Specialty: Gunsmithing

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Kathy Carter, M.S.
Kathy, a registered dietician, is also a certified health and fitness director and has broad experience teaching and consulting in the health sciences in both academic and corporate settings.
Specialty: Nutrition, Diet, Health Science

Kristen Cash
Kristen is Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork and owns a successful massage business. She is a widely recognized expert and experienced teacher of massage.
Specialty: Massage Techniques

Jerry Cooper
Jerry has been an ASE-certified mechanic for more than 20 years. He has taught motorcycle, small engine and marine engine repair as well as auto mechanics. He has also owned his own repair shop.
Specialties: Auto Mechanics, Motorcycles

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W. Larry Davis
Larry has been a licensed private investigator since 1984. He has worked on virtually every major type of investigation in his own well-respected firm and also teaches private investigation at the college level.
Specialty: Private Investigation

Deann Deloney
Deann is a district manager for the largest child care provider in the country. She oversees 15 child development centers throughout metro Atlanta.
Specialty: Child Day Care, Teacher Assisting

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Bill Gordon
Bill is president of Mid-America Marketing Management, a hospitality marketing company. He has also served as regional marketing director of Holiday Inns and Ramada Inns, and has been teaching for many years.

Specialty: Hotel and Restaurant Management

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Misty L. Hand
Misty has broad experience in corporate bookkeeping and accounting, in addition to proven proficiency using accounting software applications including Peachtree®.
Specialty: Computer Accounting

Carla Hardy, M.S.
Carla is certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a strength and conditioning specialist, and by the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America as a group exercise instructor. She has served as a high school track coach, personal trainer, exercise physiologist and group exercise instructor. Carla currently works as the Wellness Coordinator at Emory University's Blomeyer Health and Fitness Center. Read expanded profile

Specialty: Fitness, Exercise Science

Nicole House, J.D.
Nicole brings more than 30 years of experience in management and the legal field to the classroom. She currently works as copy editor and a curriculum developer for Ashworth College and also provides consulting services for various firms.

Before her present position, Nicole worked as director of practice management and director of marketing for the law firm of Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, in Atlanta, Georgia. Previous to that, Nicole was a staff attorney in the Atlanta Regional Office of the Federal Trade Commission. Her experience also includes 12 years as a law firm administrator, including for the law firm Mudge Rose Guthrie & Alexander in Washington, D.C.

Nicole's academic background includes a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, and a J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, Georgia. She is an active member of the State Bar of Georgia.

Specialty: Paralegal Studies

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Lynn Jones
Lynn has extensive experience designing interiors for both residential and commercial clients. In addition, she has taught interior design and decorating at the college level. She is a member of both the American Society of Interior Designers and International Interior Design Association.
Specialty: Interior Decorating

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Dr. Richard Ludwig
Dr. Ludwig has an extensive background in horticulture, landscape design and garden center management. He's also an experienced college educator. Read expanded profile

Specialty: Landscape Design

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Richard Malerba
Richard has been designing, crafting and repairing jewelry since 1985, and is now a bench jeweler in his own business.
Specialty: Jewelry Design and Repair

Cary Mandeville
Cary is a licensed Master Plumber and owns his own plumbing company. He also teaches plumbing to builders.

Specialty: Plumbing

Martha Merritt, C.P.A., M.A.
Martha has broad experience both as an accountant and educator. She has taught accounting at college, technical school and high school.
Specialty: Accounting

Dr. Nicole Detling Miller
An experienced collegiate sports coach and college-level sport psychology instructor, Nicole has also consulted on sport psychology to several Olympic athletes. She has earned her doctorate from the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at University of Utah. Read expanded profile.

Specialty: Sport Psychology

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Mike Nelson, M.B.A.
Mike designs and manages multi-million dollar graphic projects. He has also owned his own design firm, where he provided creative services to major corporations. He is a web designer and an expert in popular digital design applications.
Specialty: Graphic Design, Web Site Design

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James Potter
James has been Professor of Computer Information Systems at California State University since 1983. He is proficient in a dozen programming languages. And he is the author of more than twenty computer instruction publications.
Specialty: Computer Programming

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Sarah Rainwater
Sarah Rainwater teaches Floral Design at the Ashworth Career School. A second generation florist, Sarah acquired her skills working with her mother for almost twenty years. She joined Ashworth in 2009. Read expanded profile

Specialty: Floral Design

Dave Ronan
Dave has been an electronics enthusiast for many years. During his career, he's installed and serviced broadcast and sound equipment and security systems; was an electronics instructor for the U.S. Army; and developed training courses for IBM Corporation.
Specialty: PCs for Beginners

Brad Rudisail
Brad is an experienced network administrator, IT and Internet marketing consultant and Web site developer. He is currently the co-manager of an award-winning Web design, marketing and production firm.

Specialties: Computer Network Security, Computer Network Technician, Internet Marketing, Conservation

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Kimberly Schorr
Kimberly has more than ten years of progressive experience with Macy's Department Store, where she served as a merchandise manager, buyer, group manager and sales Manager. As a buyer for 56 Macy's/Bullocks stores in eight states, she was responsible for millions of dollars worth of inventory. She was also a store manager for The Limited Stores, Inc.

Specialties: Fashion Merchandising , Retail Management

Tina Boyd Stacy
Tina is a Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist with many years of experience in the clinical and educational side of the profession.
Specialty: Pharmacy Technician

Meredith Statler
Meredith has many years of experience in the hospitality industry. She has catered many large corporate and other special events, and has planned and managed institutional food service operations. Currently she's the director of food services for a large school campus.
Specialties: Gourmet Cooking and Catering

Cheryl O. Syrett
Cheryl is an experienced advertising agency account manager. She has guided product, marketing and advertising development for a wide variety of highly visible clients. She has directed the research, creative and media planning activities for accounts with budgets in the millions of dollars.
Specialty: Marketing

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Dan Turner, M.S.
Dan is the president and owner of a full service locksmithing and security company. He has been a professional locksmith since 1974 and a member of the Associated Locksmiths of America. He has also been a member of the American Society for Quality Control.
Specialty: Locksmithing

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Susan Welborn
Susan is a professional wedding planner and consultant who has planned and organized hundreds of wedding ceremonies, receptions, showers and parties.
Specialty: Bridal Consulting

Lee Woodward, C.P.A.
Lee has practiced accounting since 1978. He has been a corporate financial analyst, a chief financial officer and a college instructor of basic and advanced tax accounting methods.
Specialties: Tax Preparation, Financial Planning

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