Katherine Nelson is a 2004 graduate of Brookwood High School who returned there to teach English and coach cheerleading and golf after graduating from The University of Alabama in 2009. On February 24, 2016, the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's office began investigating Nelson after the TCSS forwarded an email from an unidentified third party claiming to have caught Nelson in the act with a student who graduated in 2013. By February 29, Nelson had been arrested, charged with having an inappropriate relationship with a male student under the age of 19 during the spring of 2013. Court documents posted subsequently stated the Nelson admitted to the affair when interviewed by sheriff's deputies. Charges against Nelson were dropped on September 25, 2017 and the case dismissed. The Tuscaloosa District Attorney's office stated that the alleged victim declined to testify in the case.
