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Headley takes father’s political advice to heart
Published Thursday, February 26, 2009
Photo by Scott Mims
Joe Headley lives off Enterprise Road, which is close to where he grew up.
Joe Headley wanted to run for a seat on the Chilton County Commission when he was about 30. His father told him to wait until he was about 40.
Headley may have made a successful commissioner as a younger man, but he heeded his father’s advice and ran, and won, in 2004 as a 41-year-old.
“I’ve enjoyed it thoroughly,” Headley said. “It’s really not hard; you just have to shoot straight and tell people how you will get things done or tell them if you just can’t do something.
“I just felt like I could make a difference.”
County residents apparently approved of the job Headley did, as he was re-elected in 2008.
Headley and his wife, Michelle, have four children. Headley lives in a home off Enterprise Road that is within a mile of where he was raised.
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