Director

Role at CDC

As the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Workplace Equity (OEEOWE), Director, Mr. Mebane is responsible for the design and direction of equal employment opportunity (EEO) programs and services at CDC/ATSDR. OEEOWE’s work promotes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision’s policies and procedures, which are based on the rules, regulations, laws, and Executive Orders that govern equal opportunity, diversity management, civil rights, and human resources.

Mr. Mebane also manages the development and implementation of CDC/ATSDR's equal employment opportunity policies and procedures. These are implemented to effectively identify, correct and prevent systematic equal employment problems and resolve issues alleging class or institutional discrimination.

Mr. Mebane joined CDC in February 2005 as a SES Chief Management Officer of CDC's Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases (CCID). In this role, he had direct authority for the management of the estimated $4.0B CCID budget which included business operations, human capital, information technology, grants, facilities, and administrative services for:

• The National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention

• National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

• National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases

• National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Diseases

Under Mr. Mebane, CCID grew to $7B, comprising over half the agency's programs, assets, people and EEO activities.

Since joining CDC, Mr. Mebane has been very active as a member of:

• The CDC Diversity Executive Steering Committee

• Enterprise Risk Management Board

• The Executive Resources Board

• Workforce Governance Board

• Senior Executive Service (SES) Qualifications Review Board

Mr. Mebane also remains active in community service as a proud member of Leadership Atlanta, and the Board of Directors for The Family Health Centers of Georgia.

Previous experience

Prior to working at CDC, Mr. Mebane spent over 23 years at FedEx. After starting his career with the company in 1981, Mr. Mebane was promoted from dock worker, to manager, to the Director of International Operations. In 2001, Mr. Mebane moved to Buffalo, New York, to become the Chief Operating Officer for a $2.0B company that FedEx acquired.

In addition to his management duties, Mr. Mebane was the corporate lead for Diversity training from 1995 to 1997 and became part of the Fed Ex Leadership Institute where he taught leadership and management practices to FedEx employees from all parts of the company, both nationally and internationally.

Outside of his work at FedEx, Mr. Mebane has served on the adjunct faculties of Georgia Tech, the University of Memphis and the University of Buffalo. He also worked as a psychiatric case manager and psychotherapist in Memphis during the de-institutionalization of the mentally ill and served as a case manager for six years. As a result of this experience, he later became Chairman of the Memphis Health, Education & Housing Finance Board (1994-2001). The restructuring of this board under his chairmanship is his legacy to Memphis in making housing affordable for people of moderate income.