Stacy Head
| Stacy Head | |
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Head addresses Mid-City New Orleans neighborhood board meeting, 2006
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| President New Orleans City Council | |
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Assumed office 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Arnie Fielkow |
| Member of the New Orleans City Council At-large – Division 1 |
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Assumed office May 2, 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Eric Granderson |
| Succeeded by | Helena Moreno (elect) |
| Member of the New Orleans City Council District B |
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In office June 1, 2006 – May 2, 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Renée Gill Pratt |
| Succeeded by | Diana Bajoie |
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Stacy Aline Singleton June 30, 1969 |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Jeremy Thomas Head |
Stacy Aline Singleton Head (born June 30, 1969) is an American lawyer and the current 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. She grew up in Greensburg, Saint Helena Parish, in southeastern Louisiana. She has a (younger) brother, Michael Lynn Singleton.
Head is by profession an attorney-at-law; she clerked for Phelps Dunbar LLC from 1991 to 1995 when she finished her juris doctor degree at Louisiana State University's Paul M. Hebert Law Center and began working for Stanley, Flanagan & Reuter LLC. Her association with politics had begun when, as an undergraduate, she worked for the Louisiana Legislature although at the time she anticipated no notion of ever seeking elective office. That interest began in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when the New Orleans City Council "unanimously asked Gov. Kathleen Blanco to extend daylight-saving time just for Orleans Parish"—an idea which Head found not only "impractical" but also "tinged with mad futility"; she compared it to King Canute's attempt to hold back the sea. In June 2007 she completed Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government course for Senior Executives in State and Local Government.
Stacy Head was elected to the New Orleans City Council in 2006, defeating incumbent Renée Gill Pratt. Councilmember Head's candidacy benefited from concerns about governmental effectiveness and efficiency in dealing with Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, developers who had obviated the desires of neighborhood residents, and affinities between incumbent Gill Pratt and then-Congressman William J. Jefferson (D), already under investigation on a variety of felony charges.Bruce Nolan of the Times-Picayune has described as "intense, caffeinated personal" Head's approach to her work on the Council. New Orleans writer Nordette Adams (nomme de plume Vérité Parlant) has described Head as a "drama queen" (together with less-flattering designations).
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