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Corlis Regina Long-Hudson
CORLIS REGINA LONG-HUDSON
DAUGHTER OF JEFF AND WADINE LONG.
NATIVE OF CARROLLTON GA
GRADUATE OF: CARROLLTON HIGH SCHOOL
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE
CENTRAL MICHIGAN
SPENT TWELVE YEARS IN THE AIR FORCE (Jun 1978 – Jul 1990) AS:
COST AND MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS OFFICER
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND HUMAN RELATIONS OFFICER
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT OFFICER
SHE SEPARATED FROM THE AIR FORCE IN 1990, AS A CAPTAIN.
SHE RETURNED TO CARROLLTON IN 1991 ESTABLISHED EBONY INN, INC:
CULTURAL ARTS FOR YOUTH, A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, WHICH TAKES
YOUTH TO ART GALLERIES, MUSEUMS, LIVE THEATER, AND OTHER CULTURAL
OUTINGS.
SURVIVED COLON CANCER IN 1998.
WORKED OTHER YOUTH PROGRAMS IN CARROLLTON AND VILLA RICA:
Founder and Board Chair of Ebony Inn, Inc.:
Cultural Arts for Youth
Carrollton High Substitute/Teachers Assistant
CCAC Theater Camp/Teen Theater Assistant Director
Teen Program Villa Rica Rec.
ACT-SO Carroll County NAACP
Worked to establish a Boys and Girls Club in Villa Rica
President of Villa Rica/Temple Kiwanis
Works with NAACP Youth Council
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2011 – Retired from city of Villa Rica
2007 - Employee of the Monty Villa Rica Parks and Recreation Department
2003 - One of Carroll County's 53 Movers, Shakers and News Makers - Times-
Georgian
2002 - Rotary's Paul Harris Fellowship Recipient
2000 - One of Eckerd's 100 Women of the Year, Featured Article Career Women
2000-Times-Georgian
1998 - Featured in Rheta Grimsley Johnson's Working in the South column, Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
98-99 - Featured in four Southern Spice Articles - Times-Georgian
2023 – NAACP Civic/Community Award
2023 – Community Mothers Award from Queentine Vallair’s Black Heritage Festival
NAACP
Member of Carroll County NAACP since its founding
Became Life Member in the early 1990’s
Served as:
youth council chair,
Life Membership chair,
ACT-SO program chair,
Worked to establish Next Gen program.