As Director of the Southeast Region for James Lee Witt Associates, LLC, Ms. Anneilia J. Holton-Williams is responsible for the financial accountability of client grant requests and insuring that the grant management process is smooth and accurate.

A senior staff member of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) since 1993, Ms. Holton-Williams has more than a decade of experience overseeing the financial aspects of disaster management. Since September 2000, Ms. Holton-Williams has served as the Deputy Manager for FEMA Headquarters’ Chief Financial Officers Field Support Team and Deputy for the Director of Disaster Closeouts, responsible for developing the policies and procedures for disaster closeout operations and establishing the long-range closeout objectives for FEMA’s regional offices. In these positions, she worked to resolve programmatic issues associated with FEMA program management and funding decisions, developed policies for the FEMA grant management program and the processes necessary to expedite Disaster Relief funding for eligible projects, and directly supervised the staff and contractors dedicated to support closeout activities in numerous geographical areas. She also was responsible for the review and analysis of FEMA’s monthly Disaster Financial Summary Report and for producing a monthly report to the agency on FEMA’s ten regions’ disaster activity status from both a financial and programmatic perspective.