Brown, Wanda S

Tenure Summary

Wanda S. Brown began her career with the Georgia Department of Corrections as a behavioral health counselor, holding the title of Behavioral Health Counselor 3 from 2016 through 2017. In 2018, she transferred into a uniformed leadership role as a Correctional Assistant Superintendent at Phillips Transitional Center, a work-release facility in Buford. Brown subsequently held two years as a Correctional Superintendent without a fixed facility assignment, then returned to Phillips in 2021 as Deputy Warden. Since 2022 she has served continuously as Correctional Assistant Superintendent at the same facility. GPS records attribute a total of two deaths to leadership tenures held by Brown, both at Phillips Transitional Center. No lawsuits or published allegations name her as a defendant.

What happened on their watch

Phillips Transitional Center (2018, 2021–2025)

Brown has held three separate deputy-level leadership postings at Phillips: Correctional Assistant Superintendent in 2018, Deputy Warden during 2021, and Correctional Assistant Superintendent from 2022 through the present. The two deaths that occurred during her tenure at the facility happened under those deputy roles.

On October 10, 2021, while Brown was serving as Deputy Warden, Anthony Lamar Johnson, a 62-year-old resident, died. A Gwinnett County Coroner investigation (case 21G-1764) initially left the cause undetermined, but subsequent review resolved the manner as natural and the cause as “Natural/Medical,” according to the coroner’s report. No notes accompanying the GPS record indicate any associated allegation of misconduct or neglect.

More than three years later, on December 23, 2024, Wayne A. Lockett, age 67, died while Brown held the title of Correctional Assistant Superintendent. The death is categorized by GPS under cause category 6; no further details—such as the specific cause of death or any investigatory findings—are available in the tracking records. The record contains no notes suggesting a lawsuit, family complaint, or news coverage linked to Lockett’s death.

Brown’s two superintendent-level years (2019–2020) are not tied to a specific facility in the GPS dataset, and no deaths are attributed to her during that period. Her earlier behavioral-health counselor positions pre-dated any facility-leadership accountability tracking.

Litigation

No lawsuits naming Wanda S. Brown as a defendant appear in GPS records.

Sources

• Georgia Prisoners’ Speak (GPS) personnel and death-attribution records — career timeline, facility assignments, and both attributed deaths.
• Gwinnett County Coroner case 21G-1764 — autopsy resolution for Anthony Lamar Johnson (natural/medical death).
• GPS cause-category classification system (cause category 6 for Wayne A. Lockett).

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Jul 12, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.