“I’m confident that David Mitchell’s strong management skills, experience and integrity make him the right person to lead us forward at Lanesboro,” said W. David Guice, commissioner of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice in a statement. 

 

Mitchell most recently served as the operations manager for prisons in the state’s western region.  Prior to that, he was the superintendent at Mountain View Correctional Institution in Spruce Pine.

 

His corrections career began in 1988 at Caldwell Correctional Center.  He served as the state’s monitor at Mountain View CI while it was being built and operated by a private corrections company.  He has also worked as an assistant superintendent at Western Youth Institution in Morganton and at Rutherford Correctional Center in Spindale.

 

Mitchell is a Navy veteran and graduate of Western Piedmont Community College and Gardner Webb University. He hails from Lenoir.