Jim Cunningham has been appointed Emergency Management Agency director after working as assistant director since 1992.When asked if he likes his job, Cunningham laughingly replied, “Well, I have to. Something has made me stick around this long.”Cunningham started volunteering with EMA in 1974 after taking a radiological course teaching how to measure and read radiation in case of fallout. This course was given at the height of the nuclear scare when an attack was widely feared.