21 Facts About Stacy Head

Stacy Aline Singleton Head was born on June 30,1969 and is an American lawyer and former president of the New Orleans City Council.

Stacy Head was born in 1969 as the daughter of the former Katherine Hamberlin and Ernest Lynn Singleton.

Stacy Head grew up in Greensburg, Saint Helena Parish, in southeastern Louisiana.

Stacy Head was elected to the New Orleans City Council in 2006, defeating incumbent Renee Gill Pratt.

In 2008, Councilmember Stacy Head began delving into the relationship between fees collected and services rendered by the Sanitation Department, which, along with its director Veronica White, was alleged by WWL-TV New Orleans Channel 4 to be on too-friendly terms with the office of mayor Ray Nagin.

When Stacy Head began publishing the e-mail messages herself on 2009 May 18, she was promptly interviewed by WDSU-TV.

Stacy Head's e-mail revealed thoughts and potential plans for a retaliatory demonstration in front of Washington's house after a demonstration by Washington's supporters in front of Stacy Head's house.

Stacy Head had incorrectly indicated Washington's house as being in the assessment territory of assessor Nancy Marshall, but the property is actually in the territory of assessor Henry Heaton.

Stacy Head denied that alleging an underassessed value for Washington's property had anything to do with their nemesis relationship:.

On 2009 December 7 an echo of the e-mail controversies reverberated when New Orleans police chief Warren J Riley claimed that Head had written a derogatory e-mail about him.

Stacy Head had apparently trashed the e-mail and was unable to retrieve it when questioned at a press conference.

Councilmember Head faced a recall petition in late 2008 continuing into 2009, ostensibly for not representing the African American community and then for her support of Republican candidate Anh "Joseph" Cao, in his successful 2008 challenge to incumbent Democratic US Representative William J Jefferson, considered Gill Pratt's ally or even mentor.

Stacy Head dismissed the leaders of the petition to recall her as "poverty pimps" pursuing their own agendas.

Stacy Head had this to say about the leaders of the recall:.

Stacy Head was reelected on 2010 February 6 with 67 percent to 33 percent for Corey Watson, an electrical engineer and minister whose father had founded New Orleans' Watson Memorial United Ministries.

Stacy Head subsequently endorsed Cao in his 2010 reelection campaign in which he was challenged by Democrat Cedric Richmond.

Stacy Head was a fly in the Jeffersons' ointment as she upended Gill Pratt from reelection to the City Council.

Stacy Head provided additional effrontery by endorsing Joseph Cao, the Republican who ousted Jefferson from Congress.

In 2012 Stacy Head sought election to an at-large seat on the New Orleans City Council.

Stacy Head alleged situations of water use by public entities which were really required to be free under state law.

Stacy Head is married to accountant Jeremy Thomas Stacy Head, and the couple have two children.