DILLON -- David Mobley, who has been serving as interim Dillon County administrator, has been given the position on a permanent basis.
The decision comes five months after Dillon County Council appointed him to the post and eight months after it unseated former county administrator Charles Curry.
Mobley, a Dillon native, said he is humbled by the appointment.
“I’m excited and honored to continue serving the people of Dillon County and the county council,” he said. “First of all, this is my home. I know people in the county I know we have a great need for economic development.”
Mobley said he returned to Dillon County after holding other business and managerial positions during the last 35 years.
He served as a deputy with the Dillon County Sheriff’s Office and as a S.C. Highway Patrol officer assigned to the Pee Dee.
Since that time, Mobley worked as an administrator in Pageland, Chester and Loris.
He also served as a solid waste manager for Cherokee County and worked as a public works director for Isle of Palms.
Mobley holds an associate degree in business, a bachelor’s degree in business management and a master’s degree in business management.
There are many things that must be accomplished in Dillon County, he said, but one of the more pressing issues is to hire someone to fill its economic director position.
Dave Bailey served as the interim Dillon County economic director for about a year and a half and was preceded by county economic director Jean Butler, who left to take on a similar role in Berkeley County.
Mobley was appointed as interim administrator in August and replaced Dillon County Council Clerk Lisa Gray, who was appointed to the position after council members voted to uphold their earlier, highly-contested decision to fire Curry.
The position has switched hands five times among four people within the last year when Clay Young resigned as administrator to serve in the same capacity in Kershaw County.
Curry was dismissed after just three months after council said he showed a lack of judgement by mediating a federal U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission case even though it involved the investigation of his position, according to a letter dated June 18.
Dillon attorney Glenn Manning filed a complaint with the EEOC and the S.C. Human Affairs Commission because he said council members discriminated against him when they hired Curry, who is white, as the administrator instead of him.
Manning later received a notice of a right to sue from the EEOC and human affairs, and said council and Mobley have been notified.
Mobley said Wednesday he hadn’t heard anything else about that matter.
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