Venita Thomas is an occupational safety and health specialist with Alliant Corp., which provides services for the Safety Services Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She is certified as a Registered Environmental Manager. Venita was previously an environmental compliance consultant for Navarro Research and Engineering at the DOE Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina. Her career includes work as an environmental and safety specialist with South Carolina Electric and Gas and as a senior environmental engineer and radiological control/health physics inspector with Westinghouse Savannah River Co.
She received a B.S. in Chemistry from Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina, and an M.S. in Occupational Safety and Health/Environmental Management from Columbia Southern University in Orange Beach, Alabama.
She is a member of the Tennessee Valley Section – American Industrial Hygiene Association, the Oak Ridge Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and the Knoxville Chapter of Jack & Jill of America. She is a graduate of Leadership North Augusta. Venita lives in Knoxville.