BIA: Eastern Oklahoma regional director out

By CLIFTON ADCOCK World Staff Writer - 11/4/2009


Bureau of Indian Affairs Eastern Oklahoma Regional Director Jeanette Hanna is currently not heading the bureau’s regional office in Muskogee, according to a bureau spokeswoman.

BIA spokeswoman Nedra Darling said the issue was “an ongoing personnel matter” and would not elaborate on why Hanna was no longer heading the office.

“We don’t get any information when it’s related to a personnel issue,” Darling said.

Robert Impson, a deputy director at the BIA’s eastern regional office in Nashville, Tenn., was named as acting director for the Muskogee office this week, Darling said.

Hanna has not been terminated, but is not currently working at the office, Darling said.

Darling said she did not know when the personnel matter would be resolved.

Hanna was named as director in May 2002 after serving as the Bureau’s director for planning, budget and management support.

In 1990, she joined the Interior Department’s Office of Budget. In 1994, Hanna joined the Bureau’s Phoenix Area Office as area budget officer, according to the BIA’s profile of Hanna. In 1997, she was named acting area director before returning to Washington, D.C., to become the BIA’s deputy budget director. In November 1998 she was selected as the budget director.

Hanna is an enrolled member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.




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