Gov. Brian Kemp announced two new appointments to his administration last week.
Oscar "Bo" Fears will take over as commissioner of the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, moving up from his current role as the agency's senior deputy commissioner.
Fran Dundore will serve as director of the Governor's Office of Student Achievement after spending three years as the office's director of school services.
Fears will succeed Kevin Hagler, who will retire at the end of this month as the second-longest serving banking commissioner in the department's history. Dundore will succeed Ian Caraway, who will become director of policy and external affairs for the governor's office after a brief stint as interim director of the Office of Student Achievement.
Fears joined the Department of Banking and Finance in 2013 as deputy commissioner for legal affairs. Before that, he worked at the state attorney general's office for 16 years, including a stint as group leader of the Commercial Transaction and Litigation Division's Business and Finance Section.
Dundore began her career as a high school English teacher in Stephens County and has spent the last 28 years serving public school students across Georgia as a principal, district curriculum leader, and assistant superintendent.
Both appointments take effect Sept. 1. Kemp announced the moves from São Paulo, Brazil, where he is leading a Georgia delegation on a trade mission to South America.
