MONTGOMERY – The Alabama Retail Association has completed its slate of officers and board of directors for 2022. Their terms of office began Jan. 1.
The officers for 2022 are:
Chairman: Jodie Stanfield, owner, Local Joe’s, Rainbow City, Albertville, Gadsden and Southside;
Vice Chairman: Michael Gee, president and co-owner, Pants Store, Leeds-based;
Treasurer: Bob Akers, vice president, Davis Direct, Montgomery;
President: Richard E. “Rick” Brown Jr., Alabama Retail Association, Montgomery;
Stanfield, Gee, Akers and Brown serve as Alabama Retail’s executive committee along with:
Immediate Past Chairman: Todd Noden, president and chief financial officer, Books-A-Million, Birmingham-based, Alabama and 30 other states; and
Executive Committee Designee: Susan Anderson, owner and chief financial officer, Eagle Eye Outfitters, Dothan.
The board secretary is the Alabama Retail Association’s Jennifer Henderson.
The 2022 directors for the Alabama Retail Association are (*also officers, **new director):
- Bob Akers*, Davis Direct, Montgomery
- Susan Anderson*, Eagle Eye Outfitters, Dothan;
- Dustin Beaty, Hospital Discount Pharmacy, Jasper; Carbon Hill Drugs, Carbon Hill; Lavish Boutique and Coffee Bar, Jasper and Cullman
- Michael Cohen**, Cohens Electronics and Appliances Inc., Montgomery;
- Melissa Cross**, McAleer’s Office Furniture, Mobile;
- Kealon Drake, Moe’s Southwest Grill, Vestavia Hills/Anniston-Oxford/Auburn/Birmingham/Decatur/Homewood/
Hoover/Huntsville/Madison/Opelika; - Michael Gee*, Pants Store, Leeds/Huntsville/Mountain Brook/Trussville/Tuscaloosa;
- Jheovanny Gomez**, Jalapeños Mexican Grill, Tuscaloosa/Northport/Cottondale;
- Courtney Herring, CVS Health, Charleston, S.C.;
- Howard Johnson, Sneaky Pete’s Hot Dogs, Bessemer;
- David S. Marks III, Marks Furniture Co., Mobile;
- Will Meacham, Midtown Pizza Kitchen, Montgomery;
- Todd Noden*, Books-A-Million, Birmingham;
- Melissa Parker-Paul, Yancy Parker Lifestyles Inc., Enterprise;
- Robert A. Robicheaux, Robicheaux LLC, Birmingham;
- Tammy Rogers, Beaumont Pharmacy & Gift Boutique, Birmingham;
- Doug Schneider**, Bayer Properties, Birmingham;
- Shane Spiller, Spiller Furniture & Mattress, Tuscaloosa/Aliceville/Eutaw/Northport/Prattville/Selma/Thomasville/
Brent/Demopolis/Greensboro/Reform; - Jodie Stanfield*, Local Joe’s, Rainbow City, Albertville, Gadsden and Southside;
- Beth Staula**, Alabama Goods, Homewood and Huntsville;
- Lynsey Todd, Monograms Plus of Cullman, Cullman;
- Jeremy Walker, Target, Trussville;
- John M. Wilson, Big Bear of Luverne Inc., Luverne and Greenville.
- Jimmy Wright, Wright’s Market, Opelika
- Scott Zinda**, Best Buy, Birmingham
Ex-officio directors, who include past presidents and chairmen, are: Rodney Barstein, Retail Specialists Inc., Birmingham; Darrell Bourne (retired), Huntsville; Frederick W. “Ricky” Bromberg, Bromberg & Co. Inc., Birmingham; Peter V. “Greg” Gregerson Jr., Gregerson’s Foods, Gadsden; Claude “Bud” Kitchin IV, Lincoln; Jim Rotenstreich, JHF Holdings Inc., Birmingham; Jacob Shevin, Standard Furniture, Alabama and Tennessee; Jimmy D. Smith (retired) and Jimmy Ray Smith, Jimmy Smith Jewelers, Decatur; Dianne Wammack (retired), Vestavia Hills; and George Wilder, The Locker Room, Montgomery and Auburn.
The Alabama Retail Association represents retailers, the largest private employer in the state of Alabama, before the Alabama Legislature and the U.S. Congress. Through sales of food, clothing, furniture, medicine and more, our 4,300 independent merchant and national company members touch almost every aspect of daily living. Since 1943, we’ve worked to promote what’s best for the retail industry in Alabama. Whether voicing the retail view when public policy is made, educating members about issues that impact them, negotiating rates for benefits and services or communicating the retail story, the Alabama Retail Association and its members are better together.
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