Hazel Haynes

Ms. Hazel Haynes has been employed by the County for forty years and she has served as the Clerk to the Board for thirty of those years. Hazel has played a key role in modernizing the Clerk’s Office as well as the County Commissioner meetings. She was instrumental in introducing Granicus iLegislate, iPads, digital scanning and other tools that have served to make the Commissioner meetings more efficient and to increase transparency. Ms. Haynes has successfully balanced her ability to embrace new technology and the modernization of our operations with her love for history. Rutherford County is rich with history and artifacts that date back to before the Revolutionary War and Ms. Haynes has been instrumental in collecting, archiving and displaying many revered historic treasures and artifacts. Ms. Haynes has a proven record of service to the State of North Carolina and Rutherford County. I fully believe that she personifies all of the values and traits you are looking for in your nominees. Ms. Haynes was awarded the prestigious Order of the Long Leaf Pine by NC Governor Roy Cooper on November 5, 2018.