Salem, Ore. – Colette S. Peters, Director of the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC), recently announced the appointment of Kim Brockamp as the agency’s new Deputy Director, effective Jan. 19.
Ms. Brockamp is a 23-year DOC veteran. She began her career in 1991 as an Accounting Assistant and then worked in various other positions in Fiscal Services. Later, as a member of Facilities Services, she worked through the contentious prison siting process. In 2004, she became the Administrator of the Offender Information and Sentence Calculation Unit. Ms. Brockamp also served as the Operations Division Policy Manager, where she was invaluable in guiding the agency’s largest division through the biennial budget process, rulemaking, and policy development and implementation. After two biennia of serving as a member of the Management Bargaining Team, Ms. Brockamp was selected as the Assistant Director for the Human Resources Division in 2007. In 2012, Ms. Brockamp was asked to lead Coffee Creek Correctional Facility as Superintendent and, in 2013, she was asked to lead the Offender Management and Rehabilitation Division as Assistant Director.
Ms. Brockamp has broad DOC experience and expertise in organizational development, budgeting, teambuilding, labor relations, and stakeholder relations which makes her uniquely suited for the Deputy Director position. She is known for caring deeply about DOC and the people in it, and she looks forward to her new role.
“Ms. Brockamp’s long-standing commitments to public safety and to her colleagues are unwavering,” stated Director Peters, “I am extremely pleased to have her at my side.”
DOC employs 4,600 staff members at 14 institutions, two community corrections offices, and several centralized support facilities throughout the state. The agency is responsible for the care and custody of over 14,600 adults sentenced to more than 12 months of incarceration, and direct or indirect supervision of 31,000 offenders on felony supervision in the community. DOC is recognized nationally among correctional agencies for providing adults in custody with the cognitive, education, and job skills needed to become productive citizens when they transition back to their communities.
