2007-2008 Board of Directors

Officers:

Dr. Rob Angus, President
Birmingham, AL
Cahaba River Basin
Rob is a professor of biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In addition to serving as the Alliance's Board President, Rob also serves on the Advisory Board of the Black Warrior Riverkeepers and on the Board of the Valley Lake Association. Rob, his colleagues, and his students have engaged in considerable research evaluating the effectiveness of erosion control strategies. Rob is a fisherman and musician who enjoys playing the banjo and hammered dulcimer.
 
Mr. E. Alston Ray, Vice President
Birmingham, AL
Cahaba River Basin
Alston is an attorney practicing with the firm of Johnston Barton Proctor & Powell, LLP in Birmingham. Alston is also a fly fisherman.
 
Mr. Bill East, Treasurer
Vestavia Hills, AL
Cahaba River Basin
Bill worked as a District Manager for BellSouth, retiring in 1991 after thirty five years with the Company. He is an outdoorsman and active river conservationist. Originally from Ashland, Alabama, he currently resides in Vestavia Hills. Bill has one child and two grandchildren.  
 
Dr. David Branham, Secretary
Huntsville, AL
Tennessee River Basin
David is currently the Chief of the G-4 (Logistics) Office for the Army’s Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command. David is an avid paddler on streams all over Alabama and the southeast.

Directors:

 Mr. John Ackerman

Pratville, AL

Alabama River Basin

John is a Professor of National Security Studies at the Air Command and Staff College on Maxwell AFB. He earned his PhD in political science, international relations from the University of Alabama. He is the Chair of the Montgomery Group of the Alabama Sierra Club and a Sierra Club executive member. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, mountain biking, and fishing with his family.

Rev. Mark Johnston

Nauvoo, AL

Black Warrior River Basin

Mark is the Executive Director of Camp McDowell, an Episcopal Church Camp and Conference Center near the Bankhead Forest and Alabama's Smith Lake.  Mark is a priest in the Episcopal Church and a graduate of University of the South.

Mr. Edwin Lamberth

Mobile, AL

Mobile River Basin

Edwin is an attorney with Cunningham, Bounds, Crowder, Brown & Breedlove, LLC. He is a 1994 graduate of the University of Virginia with a major in Government and Foreign Affairs. He attended Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, receiving his Juris Doctorate, cum laude, in 1998. After receiving his JD, Mr. Lamberth served as law clerk to Justice Champ Lyons, Jr. of the Supreme Court of Alabama from May 1998 to August 1999. During that time, he was also admitted to the Alabama State Bar. After his clerkship, he entered private practice. Mr. Lamberth is married to the former Kelley Pirnie of Montgomery, Alabama, and they have two daughters, Key and Libba, and a son, Win. 

Ms. Eartha S. McGoldrick

Birmingham, AL

Cahaba River Basin

Eartha is a University of Alabama at Birmingham alumni with a BS in Women's Studies. After college, she spent five years working in journalism for The Leeds News, the Birmingham Post-Herald, and The Fresno Bee as a page designer/copy editor before returning to Birmingham, where she spent three years in publishing at JS Printing. She has spent the last year as a Realtor with RealtySouth. She is Treasurer and Board Member of the Hulsey Little River Trust, is an organizer of the Raindrop Art Auction and Festival, and is volunteer webmaster for Urban Ministry. She enjoys spending time in the outdoors with her family and her dog.

Mr. Phil Sankey

Birmingham, AL

Cahaba River Basin

Phil is the owner of Sankey2 Advertising in Birmingham.

Ms. Wendy Seesock

Auburn, AL

Tallapoosa River Basin

Wendy serves as the Senior Research Associate for the rivers and reservoirs section of the Department of Fisheries at Auburn University. She is involved in several grassroots watershed organizations in and around the Auburn area.

Ms. L. Simone Washington, Esq.

Montgomery, AL

Alabama River Basin

Simone is a policy analyst with Alabama Arise.

Mrs. Susanna Whitsett

Homewood, AL

Cahaba River Basin 

Susanna recieved her BA from Birmingham-Southern College in 1992. She has eighteen years' experience in youth ministry in the Episcopal Church and through Camp McDowell. She has done outreach work in Hale County and served as Director of Sawyerville Day Camp from 1992-2003. She also piloted the volunteer program for the McWayne Center upon its opening in 1997. A mom of three, she is currently a group fitness instructor for the YMCA and Yoga Education Instructor for Creative Montessori and The Altamont.

 Advisory Board:

 Dr. Ramble Ankumah

Tuskeegee, AL

Chatahoochee River Basin

Ramble teaches environmental sciences at Tuskegee University. Dr. Ankumah is originally from Ghana, Africa.

Mrs. Karan Bailey

Shorter, AL

Tallappoosa River Basin

Karan is a consulting field biologist who has spent a considerable amount of her energies tracking the conservation status of the federally endangered flattened musk turtle in the Black Warrior River Basin.

Mr. Bill Bennett

Birmingham, AL

Cahaba River Basin

Mr. Sean Flynt

Birmingham, AL

Cahaba River Basin

Dr. Ben Ferrill

Huntsville, AL

Tennessee River Basin

Ben is a geologist and city planner with the City of Huntsville , an active paddler, and a local conservationist who is active with the Flint River Conservation Association.

Mr. Randy Haddock

Birmingham, AL

Cahaba River Basin

 Randy is Field Director for the Cahaba River Society.

Mr. Henry Hughes

Homewood, AL 

Cahaba River Basin 

Henry is a specialist in forestry education. He serves as Director of Education at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens and is the Executive Director of Friends of Shades Creek. In his spare time he enjoys photography, blackwater kayaking, and hiking. 

Mr. Joseph B. Mays

Birmingham, AL

Cahaba River Basin

Mr. Michael Mullen

Troy, Alabama

Choctawhatchee River Basin

Michael is the Choctawhatchee Riverkeeper. He holds a BS in Chemistry and Biology from Athens College, an MS in Chemistry from the University of Arkansas, and an MS in Biology from the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He holds an AS Certificate in Environmental Science from the University of  Alabama, Huntsville, is certified in Watershed Management  from the University of British Columbia - IRES, and is a Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control (CPESC) - Cert. # 2129. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Alabama Water Watch. During his spare time he enjoys playing golf, fishing, and canoeing.

Mr. John Scott

Montgomery, AL

Alabama River Basin

Mrs. Beth Young

Birmingham, AL

Cahaba River Basin

 Of Counsel: 

Mr. William L. Andreen (Bill), esq.
Tuscaloosa, AL
Black Warrior River Basin
Bill is the Edgar L. Clarkson Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law.  He previously served as Assistant Regional Counsel for Region IV of the US Environmental Protection Agency in Atlanta, Georgia and is a graduate of Columbia Law School and the College of Wooster. He is a Scholar Member of the Center for Progressive Reform in Washington, DC and a Member of the Commission on Environmental Law and World Conservation Union.