As a young adult, Melinda Hoyle Bozarth dreamed of working with prison inmates as a probation officer or halfway-house counselor to help them leave their mistakes behind. More than three decades later, she is GC for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Austin -- one of the two largest systems in the United States responsible for incarcerating offenders. Yet she doesn't see any irony in her career path. "I would never say I'm on the other side now. That's not the way I see my role as GC," she says.
April 14, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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Melinda Hoyle Bozarth didn’t plan to become an attorney.
The Kansas native’s undergraduate degree is in correctional administration; as a young adult she dreamed of working with prison inmates as either a probation officer or halfway house counselor to help them leave their mistakes behind.
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