Beza & Lou Smiley

It is with great pride that I announce the promotion of our daughter, Georgette Lilly. She has been a long time employee of the Dept. of Justice, United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Kentucky. She has been serving until recently, as the Victim Witness Coordinator for the District. She has been promoted to the position of Victim Witness Program Manager, for the Executive Office of the United States Attorney in Washington. She will continue to live and work in Lexington, but half of her duties will now be dedicated to working on national projects in the area of victim services for the 93 Federal Districts across the United States that are charged with prosecuting violations of federal law. Along with the promotion she received a higher rating of GS 13. This is a brand new position and Georgette was one of 5 persons across the nation asked to serve in this capacity. She is really excited and hopeful she will be able to do some meaningful work in the areas of child exploitation, terrorism, legal issues and victim services.

Elizabeth is still competing all across the country and the world in Karate. She was named 2005 Florida Sports Girl of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation and was also in the top 5 finalists nationally, she went to New York in October for the Annual Banquet. In 2005 she was a member of the US Team in the World Championships in Niagara Falls, Canada, and she came home with 2 Gold Medals. In 2004 she went to Basel, Switzerland. She came home with 2 bronze medals. She was also invited to perform on stage during the K-1 Fights televised live across Europe. This is a picture of her on stage (over 7,000 live spectators and she was doing her form to the song "Cotton Eye Joe" and had the whole stadium dancing):