Womble, Regenia Lashawndra

Tenure Summary

Regenia Lashawndra Womble began her career with the Georgia Department of Corrections in a business operations role in 2015. The following year she shifted to deputy warden positions, holding that title continuously through at least 2022, according to GPS salary and position records. Her last documented facility assignment was at Riverbend Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility, where she served as deputy warden during the 2022 calendar year. GPS data attributes a total of three deaths to Womble’s leadership tenure, all of them occurring at Riverbend while she held the deputy warden post. No lawsuits naming Womble as a defendant, and no news articles directly referencing her, were identified in the GPS database.

What happened on their watch

Womble’s only facility-level posting with attributed in‑custody deaths is Riverbend. Per GPS records, three men died at the facility during her tenure as deputy warden: Michael David Griffin (age 69, died January 13, 2023), Jimmy Ray Teems (age 54, died April 5, 2024), and Jere Hunt Horne (age 64, died June 28, 2024). The recorded cause category for each death is listed as 6. No additional incident notes are provided for these cases in the GPS dataset. No intel reports, facility‑specific alerts, or published news items related to Womble’s time at Riverbend were present in the database at the time of this writing.

Sources

• Georgia Prisoners’ Speak personnel and salary records — career timeline for Regenia Lashawndra Womble.
• GPS in‑custody death database — decedent names, dates, and attributed facility for deaths during Womble’s deputy warden tenure at Riverbend Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Aug 2, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.