Joan Smith

Joan Smith has worked for the State of West Virginia for 30+ years.  She worked for the WV State Auditor’s Office for more than 17 years, leaving there in the position of Lead Travel Audit Clerk/Second Assistant to the Director of Auditing.  She accepted a job “she couldn’t refuse” with the WV State Supreme Court of Appeals Administrative Office.  She worked for the Administrator for 10 years, working her way up to Supervisor of Accounts Payable and serving (unofficially) as Purchasing Director.  Joan left state government briefly to attend her ailing mother.

In January 2004 Joan applied for and accepted a position as Committee Clerk for the Speaker of the House, House Government Organization Committee.  As hoped, a door opened for her to assume her career full-time in state government when she applied for and accepted the position of Executive Assistant for the Cabinet Secretary of the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety.

As Executive Assistant, Joan’s priority is to the Cabinet Secretary.  She is the Secretary’s scheduler, keeping his personal calendar as well as the Shared Office Calendar.  In addition to this priority (but not limited to…) she performs such duties as preparing correspondence, drafting letters, taking minutes in meetings, coordinating conference calls, making travel arrangements and preparing expense accounts, maintaining files, coordinating employees annual and sick leave records, screening constituent calls/e-mails, maintaining updated lists of all contact information of the eleven Divisions under DMAPS , and lastly, deals with issues that are considered confidential and sensitive in nature.

Within the Office of the Secretary Joan also holds the title of and performs all functions as the Payroll Administrator, Accounts Payable Clerk, Purchasing Clerk, Purchasing Card Coordinator, P.E.I.A. Coordinator, Workers Compensation Administrator, and is the EEO Coordinator for the Department.

When Joan is on personal time she and her husband enjoy gardening, traveling around to State Parks, and visiting daughters as much as possible in sunny Pawleys Island, SC.