Terra Taylor has served as Delaware’s Department of Correction Commissioner since July 2023. She leads the state’s largest law enforcement agency, which has nearly 2,000 Correctional Officers, Probation and Parole Officers, and several hundred other professional staff members. Commissioner Taylor has dedicated her entire 27-year professional career to the Department of Correction. In 1999, she completed Academy training and became a Probation and Parole Officer, specializing in domestic violence and sex offender supervision. She was named Deputy Chief of the Bureau of Community Correction in 2019 and then was promoted to Chief of Community Correction in 2021, where she drove forward implementation of the evidence-based Effective Practices in Community Supervision (EPICS) intervention model of probation supervision, opened Delaware’s first statewide Community Correction Treatment Center, and navigated the response to the COVID pandemic.