Personnel note: Tuscaloosa Co. DA named to State Pardons and Paroles Board

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Lyn Head with Robert Bentley
Lyn Head, left, is sworn in to the Tuscaloosa County district attorney seat by Gov. Robert Bentley on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. [Photo Credit: Tuscaloosa News | Dusty Compton]

Tuscaloosa County District Attorney Lyn Head has been appointed to the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles by Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley Friday.

Bentley chose Head over four other candidates nominated by a committee to replace retiring board member William Wynne. She will join the three-member pardons board Sept. 6 and Bentley will appoint someone to fill the DA position by that time.

Head has served as the DA since the governor appointed her in 2013.

Head began her career as a prosecutor in 1997, when she filled an assistant district attorney position in the Bessemer Division of the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office. In February of 1999, she became a deputy district attorney in the Tuscaloosa County District Attorney’s Office. Over the course of her career, Head has tried more than 200 cases, including capital murder, sexual assaults, abuse of children, robbery, drug crimes, and other felony offenses.