Patrick Whitehead

Patrick Jerome Whitehead is the band director at Huffman High School and minister of music at 16th Street Baptist Church.

Whitehead graduated in 2000 from Alabama A&M University with a bachelor's degree in music education. He was a member of the Marching Maroon and White and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. He has "perfect pitch".

He was a pool manager at West End's Woodward Park before taking a job at North Roebuck Elementary School. He joined the faculty at Huffman in 2002.

In April 2009 Whitehead was arrested and charged with sexual abuse by force and sodomy in a case involving a Huffman student. He pleaded guilty to guilty to sexual misconduct and was given a 12-month suspended sentence with unsupervised probation.

Whitehead is married and resides in Pinson.

References

• Ray, Tiffany and Marie Leech (April 18, 2009) "Huffman band director arrested on sexual abuse charges." Birmingham News
• Velasco, Eric (May 15, 2009) "Former Huffman High band director pleads guilty to misdemeanor in student sex case." Birmingham News