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Paulette Norvel Lewis had a forty-year career of advocacy on behalf of women and girls. She is currently retired and provides individual consulting services as a career development professional and coach for women in the workforce.
From 2006 until her retirement from the workforce, in June of 2014, Ms. Lewis served as Regional Administrator of the Women’s Bureau, U. S. Department of Labor (DOL) for the eight southeastern states. Through initiatives such as Wi$eUp (financial literacy), Trauma-Informed Care for Women Veterans, Women Going Green, Workplace Flexibility, and the Atlanta STEM Summit, she worked for better jobs, career advancement, economic empowerment, and equity for women working women.
In 2001, Paulette became Chief of Discretionary Programs for DOL’s Employment and Training Administration overseeing over 200 federal grants totaling more than $400 million. From 1993 to 2001, she served as Regional Advocate, for the U. S. Small Business Administration, with responsibility for representing small business issues to Congress.
During the 1980s, Paulette worked briefly as Chief of Employee Development for the City of Atlanta; and was a consultant to corporations, small businesses, and non-profits providing training and organizational development services. Most notably, she provided career counseling for black women engineers in Procter and Gamble. From 1988-1993, she was Chief of Staff for Mrs. Coretta Scott King at the King Center and, in 1996 she worked for D. Dorothy Height as Interim Executive Vice President at the National Council of Negro Women in 1996.
Ms. Lewis began her career of advocacy for women in the 1070s when she and The Honorable Alexis Herman co-founded the Minority Women Employment Program in Atlanta. This program expanded to 10 cities and placed over 2,400 African American, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian women in management, technical, and professional jobs in private industry.
Paulette is an alumna of Leadership Atlanta (’81) and the Diversity Leadership Academy of Atlanta (’07), and served on the founding Board of the International Community School in Clarkston, GA. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Ms. Lewis has received numerous awards and honors including being named by the Atlanta Business League as one of “Atlanta’s Top 100 Black Women of Influence”; a Lifetime Achievement Award from the U. S. Department of Labor; the POW! Award from Womenetics in 2011; commendation from President Clinton for her work on the 1995 White House Conference on Small Business and, induction into the YWCA’s Academy of Women Achievers in 2014.
Paulette earned a B. A. in Education, cum laude, from Edgewood College of the Sacred Heart in Madison, Wisconsin. She has received national recognition for her work on behalf of women, girls, and small businesses. She is the author of My Mother’s Daughter: A Heritage of Faith, Service, Wisdom, and Love and co-author of A Halleluiah Song: A Memoir of an African American Priest in the Jim Crow South and Stepping Up: Placing Minority Women in Management Jobs.
Paulette lives in Atlanta with her husband, Marion Lewis. She enjoys writing, photography, and designing and making jewelry using organic and gemstones.