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Averett, Sterling
On GDC's 2025 payroll
Profile written September 23, 2026
This profile reflects positional accountability — this individual held the leadership roles shown during the dates shown, during which the listed deaths or lawsuits occurred. Inclusion does not constitute a legal finding of personal culpability for any specific incident.
Tenure Summary
Georgia Prisoners' Speak records show no deaths attributed to facility-leader tenures held by Sterling Averett. Averett's documented career with the Georgia Department of Corrections is a non-custodial, specialist track: a rehabilitation counselor position in 2015, followed by a continuous chaplaincy beginning in 2016 and running through 2025 across annual salary records, with two additionally recorded chaplain entries at Dodge State Prison dated November 22, 2023, and August 27, 2026.
No deaths are attributed to any of these postings, no lawsuits name Averett as a defendant, and no intelligence reports, intel events, or news mentions in the records name him. Their career history is documented in the Positions table below.
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Chaplain | DODGE STATE PRISON | 2026-08-27 → present |
| CHAPLAIN | 2016-01-01 → present | |
| Chaplain | DODGE STATE PRISON | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| REHAB/SUPTV COUNSELOR (WL) | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
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