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Woods, Shunda M
Not on GDC's 2025 payroll (last listed 2022)
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
GPS records show no deaths attributed to facility-leader tenures held by Shunda M. Woods. Her career history is documented in the Positions table below: a behavioral health counselor post in 2015, three years as a deputy warden (2016–2018), and four years as a Manager 2 in Correctional Administration (2019–2022). The position records for these years do not identify a facility, and the dataset carries no deaths during any of them.
Litigation
Court records list the following cases naming Woods as a defendant. None is recorded in this dataset as connected to a death during a leadership tenure.
- Daker v. Oliver (Filing Restriction Per 59 Order) — No. 1:25-cv-03191, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, filed June 6, 2025, terminated March 30, 2026.
- Daker v. Ward — No. 7:20-cv-00113, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, filed June 11, 2020, terminated November 3, 2021.
- Blandburg v. Allen — No. 7:17-cv-00006, M.D. Ga., filed January 10, 2017, terminated March 21, 2018.
- Blash v. Allen — No. 7:16-cv-00190, M.D. Ga., filed October 24, 2016, terminated May 6, 2019.
- Hill v. Georgia Department of Corrections — No. 7:15-cv-00226, M.D. Ga., filed December 14, 2015, terminated September 29, 2017.
- Dearman v. Woods — No. 7:14-cv-00083, M.D. Ga., filed May 30, 2014, terminated September 2, 2014.
No outcome amounts are recorded for any of these cases.
Sources
- CourtListener dockets — the six case records listed above (case names, numbers, courts, filing and termination dates).
- Georgia Department of Corrections position and salary records — Woods's titles and years of service, 2015–2022.
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| MGR 2, CORRECTIONAL ADMIN | 2019-01-01 → 2022-12-31 | |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | 2016-01-01 → 2018-12-31 | |
| BEH HEALTH/COUNSELOR (SP) | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Lawsuits as defendant
| Case # | Court | Filed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:25-cv-03191 | GAND | 2025-06-06 | terminated |
| 7:20-cv-00113 | GAMD | 2020-06-11 | terminated |
| 7:17-cv-00006 | GAMD | 2017-01-10 | terminated |
| 7:16-cv-00190 | GAMD | 2016-10-24 | terminated |
| 7:15-cv-00226 | GAMD | 2015-12-14 | terminated |
| 7:14-cv-00083 | GAMD | 2014-05-30 | terminated |
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