Barbara Childs-Pair
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Director
District of Columbia Emergency Management Agency
Barbara Childs-Pair serves as the director of the District of Columbia Emergency Management Agency (DCEMA). She began her career in 1973 with the Office of Civil Defense, now the DC Emergency Management Agency, as a clerk typist. During the past 30 years she has held several positions within DCEMA, including administrative aide, chief of plans and training, chief of operations, and deputy director of emergency operations. She served as deputy director of the agency from 1995 to 1999 and again from 2000 to 2003.
During her tenure at DCEMA, Ms. Childs-Pair has participated in eight presidential inaugurations, the 1982 Air Florida response and recovery in conjunction with the Metrorail crash and major snow storm, the 1977 hostage incident at the Wilson Building, the Million Man March, obtained seven Presidential Emergency Disaster declarations, and provided coordination of other major events in the District of Columbia, such as the International Monetary Fund/World Bank demonstrations. She also served as the lead planner for the District of Columbia government in its mitigation and preparedness efforts for the Year 2000 (Y2K) potential technology interruptions to ensure continuity of government operations.
Following the events of September 11, 2001, Ms. Childs-Pair assisted with the development of the District Response Plan, which reflects the functional aspects of the Federal Response Plan and ensures coordination and communications within the District government, as well as with numerous federal agencies, schools, universities, businesses, and the community.
Ms. Childs-Pair has participated on the regional and local Health and Medical Bioterrorism Task Force and the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile Task Force, and she is a member of the National Emergency Management Association and Black Public Administrators. She received the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Award for Distinguished DC Government Employees in 2000. She attended Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, and majored in biology.
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