CORRIE TEAGUE BOBE | Director, Danville Office of Economic Development & Tourism

For several months after Telly Tucker stepped down as Danville’s director of economic development in 2020, Corrie Teague Bobe stepped up as interim director. Following a competitive national search, officials decided they’d already found what they were looking for and hired Bobe for the permanent role.

Since then, Bobe has worked to develop and market more than 5,600 acres of industrial land and more than 750,000 square feet of commercial property. Under her leadership, the Danville region has secured major investments, including Tennessee-based Microporous’ planned $1.3 billion battery separator manufacturing facility at the Southern Virginia Megasite at Berry Hill and the $800 million Caesars Virginia casino and resort, which opened in 2024.

Bobe also pushed for the creation of a tourism division in the economic development department, an idea that came to fruition in 2022. “This strategic move allowed us to better leverage both existing and emerging assets in the region to support entrepreneurship, create higher-wage job opportunities and diversify the local tax base,” she says.

A marketing management graduate of Virginia Tech, Bobe joined the city payroll in 2009 as a marketing and research manager for the economic development department. She was later named project manager. In 2015, Bobe was promoted to the department’s assistant director.

Bobe’s nominator praised her determination to enhance the region’s quality of life: “She is devoted to improving lives and building brighter futures for each small business owner, resident, family, entrepreneur and visitor.”

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