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NASHVILLE – Tennessee Governor-elect Bill Haslam today announced Georgia Department of Corrections’ assistant commissioner and chief of Staff Derrick Schofield will serve as his commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Correction.
Schofield will oversee the state’s corrections system, which has 14 prisons, more than 20,000 inmates and more than 5,000 employees.
“I’m incredibly pleased that someone of Derrick’s talent has agreed to be a part of my team,” Haslam said in a news release. “Housing and rehabilitating our state prisoners is an enormous responsibility, and I believe Derrick is the right man for this important job.”
Schofield, 50, was named Georgia’s assistant commissioner of corrections in 2009 and has 19 years total experience in the field.