L.N. Hagan
Former Director of Public Safety
1996 - 1999
L.N. Hagan joined the Department of Public Safety in 1961, as a state trooper cadet and was promoted to trooper in 1964. The Gadsden native worked in Birmingham and Gadsden as a cadet, and in Shelby County as a trooper assigned to the Highway Patrol Division. In 1969, he was promoted to corporal and moved to Mobile, where he served until his promotion to sergeant and return to Gadsden as a member of the Investigative and Identification Division (now ABI). The following year, upon his promotion to lieutenant, he joined the Intelligence Unit, where he stayed for nine years. In 1980, he was promoted to captain and became commander of the Alabama Criminal Justice Training Center in Selma, where he served for four years before transferring to Montgomery in the Intelligence Unit.
In 1985, Hagan helped organize the Missing Children Bureau, which was established by executive order of then-Gov. George Wallace. He served as commander of the Missing Children Bureau until his retirement in 1988.
Hagan was appointed assistant director of Public Safety in December 1995, following the resignation of then-Lt. Col. Bob Eddy.
After Col. Gene Mitchell resigned as director, Hagan was appointed director of the Department of Public Safety July 31, 1996.
Hagan currently serves as a member of the Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission, a position he previously held for nine years. Hagan retired December of 1999