The Jefferson County Fee just lately permitted the promotion of a brand new deputy county supervisor, finance director and income director.
DEPUTY COUNTY MANAGER
Daren Lanier was promoted to be the deputy county supervisor over human and group companies. He’ll oversee the coroner and medical expert’s workplace, Board of Registrars, youth detention, workforce growth and group companies, and Household Courtroom, in accordance with the county’s web site.
Lanier beforehand served as chief deputy director within the Income Division. He has greater than 25 years of mixed service in county and municipal authorities. Lanier is skilled in managing giant groups, the gathering and disbursement of thousands and thousands in annual tax revenues, state and county enterprise licenses, titling and registering motor autos, and implementing varied tax legal guidelines.
He holds a bachelor’s diploma in accounting from Alabama A&M College and graduated from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Academy, the place he just lately retired as chief of the sheriff’s reserve unit with greater than 20 years of service. As well as, he’s a member of the Alabama A&M Magic Metropolis Metro Alumni Chapter, serves as chairman of the Jefferson County Credit score Union, and is an authorized income officer.
FINANCE DIRECTOR
Malinda Parker was named the county’s finance director. She has greater than 25 years of expertise in authorities operations, beginning with Jefferson County as a tax agent in 1996. She beforehand served as supervisor of particular initiatives with the Finance Division, answerable for oversight of the American Rescue Plan Act, monetary reporting for federal awards and the annual complete monetary report. Previous to her tenure with Jefferson County, Parker labored for Compass Financial institution as a banking service consultant.
Parker has been an energetic member of the Alabama Nationwide Guard for greater than 36 years and at present holds the rank of main and serves because the medical service department chief and lead investigating officer for accidents sustained by troopers. She obtained her certification as a U.S. Military grasp resilience teacher from Penn State College.
Parker earned her bachelor’s diploma in enterprise from Faulkner College-Montgomery and her grasp’s diploma in public administration from the College of Alabama at Birmingham. She is an energetic member of the Authorities Finance Officers Affiliation and Girls Main Authorities, and was licensed as an accounts payable supervisor by the Institute of Finance & Administration.
REVENUE DIRECTOR
Scott Moore was promoted because the county’s income director. Moore has spent 33 years in public service with the Jefferson County Division of Well being and Jefferson County Fee, the final three years because the supervisor of tax collections. He has greater than 26 years of expertise in accounting, auditing and tax coverage.
Moore began his profession with the Division of Income in 1996 as an examiner, checking for enterprise license compliance. He then spent 16 years performing tax audits throughout the USA as senior auditor and three years with the division as a principal accountant.
Moore has a bachelor’s diploma in accounting from UAB and is an authorized income examiner and licensed income officer. He’s a previous two-term vice chairman of the County Income Officer’s Affiliation of Alabama and former board member for the Alabama Native Tax Institute of Requirements and Coaching. He has served on quite a few tax coverage committees for the Affiliation of County Commissions of Alabama over the past 20 years and served as Jefferson County’s delegate to the Streamlined Gross sales and Use Tax Mission, the place he was an advisory member of the audit committee defending native authorities’s rights to self- administration and enforcement of gross sales and use taxes.