Three longtime employees of the N.C. Department of Correction have been given new administrative duties.

Ricky Anderson, a 30-year corrections veteran and superintendent of the Pasquotank Correctional Institution in Elizabeth City for the past two years, was tapped this week as the state's deputy director of prisons, Anne Blythe reports. He began his career as a correctional officer in Wayne Correctional Center in 1979, then moved to Greene County, then to Marion Correctional Institution and later Foothills Correctional Institution in Morganton. In 2008, according to a release sent out by state corrections administrators, Anderson was named Warden of the Year.

In the state Division of Community Corrections, where the state's probation system has been under scrutiny in recent years, Diane Isaacs was tapped this week to oversee field operations for the 2,000 probation/parole officers and the 117,000 offenders under their watch. Isaacs started her career in 1982 in Cumberland County as a probation/parole officer. Since February, she has been acting administrator of the Community Corrections division that covers 21 counties in the southeast and central part of the state — a division with 680 employees and more than 31,000 offenders.

Terry Gootee, who began his career as a probation and parole officer in Charlotte, will fill the post that Isaacs will leave. He has worked for the state Department of Correction for 30 years.