Mary D. Peevy
Former Director of Public Safety
1993
Mark D. Peevy joined the Alabama Department of Public Safety in 1966. He was appointed an Alabama State Trooper in 1970 and assigned to the Highway Patrol Division in Montgomery. Beginning in 1971, he served for eight years with the department's Executive Protection Service, working primarily with former Gov. George C. Wallace's and the mansion's protective details. He then served in the Driver Improvement Unit of Public Safety's Driver License Division from 1979 until 1984. That year he joined the department's Intelligence Unit, where he served as an investigator until his assignment again to Executive Protection in 1987.
On Feb. 1, 1991, Gov. Guy Hunt appointed Peevy assistant director of the department, in which capacity he served in the rank of lieutenant colonel until March 9, 1993, when he was named director of Public Safety and assumed the rank of colonel. After more than 27 years of service to the state, Colonel Peevy retired June 1, 1993.