CAROL W. ADKINS

Owner / President

PRESIDENT-ELECT PAINTING AND DECORATING CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA (PDCA)

Carol Adkins is the President/owner of Adkins Quality Painting, Inc. Carol is an employee turned owner paint contractor. She was employed by Richard Paint Company of Greensboro, NC for 11 years as bookkeeper, secretary, and estimator. Upon Cletis Richards’s retirement in 1989, she purchased the business and it became Richard & Adkins Paint Co., Inc. She continued the business in Greensboro, NC until October, 1999 when she moved the main headquarters to Mayodan, NC, her home town, leaving a full time estimator in the Greensboro office. On October 1, 2005, she changed the company name to Adkins Quality Painting, Inc. Her husband, Tommy Adkins and her eldest son, Robert Adkins, work for her and run the field operations. Carol employs 10 to 15 people year round. Carol has been actively involved in PDCA since 1978 as an employee of a contractor member and joined as a contractor member in 1989. Carol has gone through all the chairs in the Piedmont Chapter and the Carolinas’ Council. Carol has served on the National membership committee, strategic planning committee, and is completing her fourth year on the National Executive Committee. Carol says these past four years has been the most rewarding experience of her life and has allowed her to give back to the Association that has made her a successful contractor/business person. Carol’s community involvement are with the Cub Scouts, local little league baseball, local little league soccer, and Women of the Moose. Carol and her husband, Tommy, have two sons, four grandsons, and one granddaughter. Her hobbies are traveling, golf, community socials, bingo, casino trips, and spending quality time with the grandchildren.

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Robert J. Adkins

General Manager

Hi, I am Robert J. Adkins. I am the father of Three Awesome sons. I also have been blessed to be the papa of two beautiful granddaughters. I am proud to be the son of Carol and Thomas Adkins, and the big brother of John Adkins. I decided to go to work for my mother who purchased a commercial painting company in 1989. I started in the painting business as a helper. I quickly caught on to the fact that the more I learned, and the better I understood this business, the better off I would be. I worked my way up through the next 27 years and then was promoted to General Manager. I’ve tried to teach my employees the things I’ve learned over the years so they could better their lives and the loved ones around them. Looking back over the years gives me the desire to keep moving forward as a leader in this company. “When things get hard, don’t quit. Decide to get stronger.”

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Nicholas Joyce

Epoxy Flooring Division manager

My name is Nicholas Joyce and I’m the Epoxy Flooring Division manager. As a father of two and husband of my wife for over 10 years, I understand commitment and loyalty and I take my job very seriously and will except no less than perfection on every flooring project I am overseeing. I started working in the painting and epoxy flooring business in 2018 in Boise, Idaho after many years in the field, I decided to move back to my home state of North Carolina and team up with Adkins Quality Painting to launch and manage our flooring division

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Gary Steele

Field Supervisor

Hi my name is Gary Steele. I started working for AQP in 2009 as a helper. I have learned so much about working with others and being responsible for everything I do on my own. I didn’t plan on being a Professional Painter when I started as a helper in this Business. But as time went by, I found myself learning the ins and outs of painting. After a few years went by I was promoted to field supervisor and then realized how much knowledge I have gained over the years of my employment. I enjoy being able to confidently perform my duties on each jobsite I work on. Putting a smile on customers faces one job at a time makes my job rewarding. I have been able to travel to places across the Carolina’s and Southern Virginia through my work that I would have never been able to see if I hadn’t become a painter 14 years ago. I am very excited to see what is in my future as I continue to work for this Company that makes me feel like family.

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