COMMUNITY
City of Peachtree Corners Communications Director Louis Svehla
A multi-tasker by nature, this Augusta native finds this job, this area a perfect fit
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o be able to handle the job of communications director for a bustling city like Peachtree Corners, you have to possess a particular set
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of skills: ■ Articulate complicated governmental jargon and procedures into everyday language for the masses, ■ Oversee website, social media, internal and external communications and a host of other things – kind of a jack of all trades, ■ Maintain a professional composure in all situations — especially emergencies… And you must make it look effortless. Louis Svehla’s circuitous route to the position prepared him for that and more. Born in Augusta, he didn’t
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remain there for long. When he was six months old, his father, a military man, was assigned duties overseas. So, the first ten years of his life were spent in Europe. “My dad was Army. He was an electronics and communications equipment specialist in the military,” Svehla said. “I was almost 11 when we moved back to Augusta. I did all my middle school and high school there. My dad retired there with the military. And then I went to college at Georgia College in Milledgeville. Oh, which is now Georgia College and State University.”
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Above, Louis Svehla with his son, mother, and fiance and her son.
Svehla said he has four passions: people, information, education and kids. He wasn’t necessarily looking for a career that would encompass them all, but thought law be a good choice considering his “gift of gab” and public speaking skills. “That was in the mid to late 90s and the market was getting flooded with lawyers. And I decided
