Heflin is a village in southern Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States.
On April 5, 2013, voters by a margin of 50-30 recalled Mayor Judy Tillman, a Democrat, from office.
[2] No candidate qualified to fill the mayor's office in a special election scheduled for October 19.
[4] Heflin is named for Alabama native Charles Buckner Heflin (1829-1910), a veteran of the Confederate Army who thereafter operated a cotton gin and was engaged in the planting and mercantile business in south Webster Parish.
One of Charles Heflin's sons, William Thomas Heflin (1868-1936), a native of Webster Parish, was engaged in the timber business and was elected in 1916 as the sheriff of Winn Parish in North Louisiana.