Wayne Rogers
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
Wayne Rogers currently serves as Executive Assistant to Jefferson County Sheriff Mark Pettway. He accepted the appointment to this position in 2019 after practicing law in the Birmingham area for 30 years. Wayne serves on the Board of Directors of Crisis Intervention Teams International (“CITI”), the largest organization in the country dedicated to training law enforcement officers how to deal with individuals in a Mental Health and/or Addiction Crisis. He also serves on the Board of the Craig Crisis Care Center in Birmingham. He regularly teaches Crisis Intervention to law enforcement officers and others at the Sheriff’s Academy and the Birmingham Veterans Administration. He has worked to establish numerous health programs in the Jefferson County Jails, including a telehealth program, a jail-based Competency Restoration Program, and a social services program for HIV-positive individuals, the latter in conjunction with Birmingham AIDS Outreach. Wayne started his career at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Birmingham, serving as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Division from 1989 until 1995. He then spent 21 years as the Managing Counsel of Rogers & Associates, the Travelers Insurance Company Staff Counsel Office for the State of Alabama. In 2016, Wayne retired from Travelers and joined his best friend from law school to form DeGaris & Rogers, LLC, a small plaintiff’s personal injury practice. One of the few things that could have pulled him away from that practice was the opportunity to finish his career in government service, where his career began. Wayne is married to Lauri Sitton Rogers, the CFO of Red Mountain Theatre Company, and they have three adult children and three grandchildren.
