U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed North Carolina Community Corrections director Anne Precythe to the National Institute of Corrections Advisory Board for a three year term. Precythe will serve on the advisory board until September 2017.
Precythe has served as the state’s Community Corrections director since March 2013. She oversees a workforce of more than 2,500 probation/parole officers, managers and support staff who the supervise more than 105,000 offenders on probation, parole or post-release supervision.
She previously served as the supervision services administrator in Community Corrections. She also has served as Evidence Based Practices Implementation manager, Interstate Compact administrator and a lead quality assurance analyst. She started her career in Community Corrections as a probation/parole officer in 1988. A North Carolina native, Precythe earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.