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Orsborn, Myra Monique
Status: active
Profile written August 2, 2026
Current Position
Director Of Women’s Services
Salary
$101,120
2025 · state payroll
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
Myra Monique Orsborn’s career with the Georgia Department of Corrections spans more than fifteen years, beginning with counseling roles in 2009 and advancing into facility leadership. After serving as a behavioral health counselor and supervisor, she became Deputy Warden at Metro Transitional Center in 2017. She then held the title of Correctional Superintendent from 2018 through 2022 at unrecorded facilities, before being appointed Warden 1 at Whitworth Women’s Facility in 2023, a post she retained until early 2026. In January 2026, she moved into the department’s central administration as Deputy Director of Women’s Services and was promoted to Director of Women’s Services later that year. GPS records attribute one death to a facility during her leadership tenure — that of Rhianna Woods at Whitworth Women’s Facility in January 2025, while Orsborn was warden.What happened on their watch
Deputy Warden — Metro Transitional Center (2017)
Orsborn held the second-in-command role at the Atlanta reentry facility for one year. No deaths are attributed to her tenure there.Correctional Superintendent — Unspecified facilities (2018‑2022)
Across five calendar years, Orsborn served as a facility-level superintendent. The specific institutions are not recorded in GPS data, and no deaths are linked to her oversight during this period.Warden 1 — Whitworth Women’s Facility (Jan. 2023–Jan. 2026)
Orsborn assumed the top operational post at the state’s primary women’s prison in north Georgia. One death occurred on her watch. On January 10, 2025, Rhianna Woods died from acute benzodiazepine intoxication. The DeKalb County Medical Examiner classified the manner as accident (overdose) and listed the Metro Reentry Facility as the location where Woods ingested the substance. GPS records, however, maintain Whitworth as the facility of record for the death. According to an administrative hypothesis noted by GPS, GDC may have executed a technical transfer of Woods’s custody to Metro Reentry when she was near death or taken to an Atlanta‑area hospital, even if she never physically entered that facility, accounting for the discrepancy in recordkeeping. The GDC’s own January 2025 mortality report — the only month for which the department publicly released populated causes of death — recorded Woods’s cause as “Acute Respiratory Failure/ Possible Drug Overdose.” The narrative notes further indicate Woods reportedly swallowed a substance on the evening of January 8, 2025, suffered seizures, and was found with benzodiazepines in her blood before dying two days later.Sources
- Georgia Department of Corrections — January 2025 mortality data report (official PDF release)
- DeKalb County Medical Examiner — Case 25-0059
- GPS personnel and death‑attribution records
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Director of Women’s Services | 2026-08-01 → present | |
| Deputy Director of Women’s Services | 2026-01-16 → present | |
| WARDEN 1 | WHITWORTH WOMEN’S FACILITY | 2023-01-01 → present |
| CORRECTIONAL SUPERINTENDENT | 2018-01-01 → 2022-12-31 | |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | METRO TRANSITIONAL CENTER | 2017-01-01 → 2017-12-31 |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR SPV | 2016-01-01 → 2016-12-31 | |
| BEH HEALTH/COUNSELOR (WL) | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 | |
| Counselor | 2009-01-01 → 2009-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
1 people died at facilities under Orsborn, Myra Monique's leadership.
| Date | Decedent | Age | Facility | Role at time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-10 | Rhianna Woods | — | WHITWORTH WOMEN’S FACILITY | WARDEN 1 |
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