Dwight Davis is the president of Global Connections to Employment (GCE) – an affiliate of LifeView Group providing jobs for people with significant disabilities. His office is in the LifeView Group corporate headquarters in downtown Pensacola, Florida.
Prior to joining GCE, Dwight served as director of operations for The Rockhill Group. He joined Rockhill in 2018 after retiring from a 26-year career in the U.S. Air Force. As director, Dwight was responsible for the execution of Department of Defense, Federal Aviation Administration and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Services contracts across 37 locations nationwide and overseas.
Before his retirement from the Air Force, Dwight served in multiple leadership roles, including command of a Special Operations Squadron Operations Group, and he served as Chief of Staff for a two-star Joint and Interagency Task Force combating illicit trafficking from Central and South America. Dwight is a combat veteran with multiple deployments in support of operations in Bosnia, South Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Dwight received his Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration operations management from Auburn University in 1991 and a Master of Aviation Science with Distinction from Embry Riddle. He was a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Air Force Air Command and Staff College and was awarded a Master of Military Operational Arts and Science degree. Dwight was selected for a National Defense Fellowship at the Naval Postgraduate School, where he earned the Military Officers Association of America Advanced Joint Warfare Award.
Dwight is from Marietta, Georgia, and now resides in Pensacola, Florida. He and his wife Nancy Murphree Davis – a local artist – have a son, Andrew, and a daughter, Catherine.