NORFOLK, Va. – (June 25, 2004) – Tidewater Community College announces the appointment of David S. Redmond as director of government and community relations.

Most recently Redmond served as executive director of Smart Region Hampton Roads, a non-profit community and economic development project of Hampton Roads Partnership, Norfolk. He worked with leaders in business, government and education from across the region promoting initiatives to enhance the region’s economic competitiveness and improve its quality of life.

Redmond has extensive experience in legislative communications, with 14 years devoted to Congressional work in Washington, D.C. He began his career as a legislative correspondent for Congressman G. William Whitehurst and went on to be assistant press secretary and legislative assistant to Congressman Wally Herger, press secretary to Congressman Robert F. (Bob) Smith, chief of staff for Congressman Wes Cooley, communications director for the House of Representatives’ Committee on Agriculture, and chief of staff for Congresswoman Sue Myrick.

“Mr. Redmond will be a marvelous addition to the TCC administrative team, particularly in our outreach to the many constituencies we serve,” says TCC President Deborah DiCroce. “And his local roots as a graduate of Cox High School and the College of William and Mary are certain to be a value-added.”

His professional accomplishments include being named a 2003 SunTrust Foundation Fellow, Thomas C. Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, University of Virginia; serving as a member of the Task Force on E-Communities, Governor’s Commission on Information Technology, Virginia; and receiving a 2000-2001 Leadership Hampton Roads award, Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce.

Redmond resides with his wife, Kathleen, and daughter, Jill Elizabeth, in Virginia Beach.

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Tidewater Community College is the second largest of the 23 community colleges in the Commonwealth of Virginia, enrolling more than 34,000 students annually. The 37th largest in the nation’s 1,600 community-college network, TCC ranks among the 50 fastest-growing large community colleges. Founded in 1968 as a part of the Virginia Community College System, the college serves the South Hampton Roads region with campuses in Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach as well as the TCC Jeanne and George Roper Performing Arts Center in the theater district in downtown Norfolk, the Visual Arts Center in Olde Towne Portsmouth and a regional Advanced Technology Center in Virginia Beach. Forty-three percent of the region’s residents attending a college or university in Virginia last fall were enrolled at TCC.