В мае 2017 года губернатор Кей Айви назначил Вернона Барнетта на должность комиссара Департамента доходов штата Алабама.
He has worked in state government for over 26 years serving as a Deputy Solicitor General, Deputy Legal Advisor to the Governor, Chief Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Corrections, and Executive Counsel of the Department of Environmental Management.
Commissioner Barnett is the current Vice Chair of the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee, the First Vice President of the Federation of Tax Administrators Board of Trustees, a member of the Senior Executive Board of the Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a member of the Southeastern Association of Tax Administrators Executive Committee, and the past Chair of the Multistate Tax Commission.
Он получил дипломы Университета Вандербильта и Школы права Университета Алабамы. У него и его жены двое детей.
