Alabama Chambers is governed by a 17 member board with representation from chambers across Alabama as well as the Business Council of Alabama.
2024 Executive Committee
MEREDITH DRENNEN, IOM
Chair of the Board
Birmingham Business Alliance
Vice President, Investor Relations
ANNA HOVEY, IOM
Vice Chair
Auburn Chamber of Commerce
President & CEO
PENELOPE HINES
Vice Chair, Financial Affairs
Monroeville/Monroe County Chamber of Commerce
Executive Director
LAURA STRICKLAND, IOM
Vice Chair, Programs
Sylacauga Chamber of Commerce
Executive Director
CAITLIN BURNS, IOM
Past Chair
Shoals Chamber of Commerce
President & CEO
2024 Directors
HELENA DUNCAN
Business Council of Alabama
President & CEO
Rick Roden, AACE
Mountain Lakes Chamber of Commerce
President
ERIN GRANTHAM
Enterprise Chamber of Commerce
Executive Director
HEATHER LEBISCHAK
North Jefferson Chamber of Commerce
President
TINA POIROUX, AACE
Southwest Mobile County Chamber of Commerce
Executive Director
PATTY VANDERWAL, IOM, AACE
Prattville Area Chamber of Commerce
President
DARRELL RANDLE
Mobile Chamber
VP, Small Business
CHRISTI ROBINSON
Etowah Chamber
President & CEO
PAMMIE JIMMAR
Athens-Limestone Chamber of Commerce
President
SANDY B. WILLIAMS, AACE
Elba Chamber of Commerce
President
LEISSA HILL
Decatur-Morgan County Chamber of Commerce
Vice President of Finance & Operations, CFO
List of Past Chairs
| 2021 2020 | Dean Mitchell, IOM, ACCE Dothan Area Chamber of Commerce |
| 2019 2018 | Heather Brothers New, CCE, IOM, ACCE The Chamber Gadsden & Etowah County |
| 2017 | Bill Sisson, IOM, Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce |
| 2016 | Morri Yancy, IOM, Lake Guntersville Chamber of Commerce |
| 2015 | Brian Hilson, Birmingham Business Alliance |
| 2014 | Jim Page, IOM, CCE, Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama |
| 2013 | Ronnie Acker, Bessemer Area Chamber of Commerce |
| 2012 | Jan Wood, IOM, Wetumpka Area Chamber of Commerce |
| 2011 | Kirk Mancer, IOM, CCE, Cullman Area Chamber of Commerce |
| 2010 | Kirk Mancer, IOM, CCE, Cullman Area Chamber of Commerce |
| 2009 | Donna Watts, South Baldwin Chamber of Commerce |
| 2008 | Linda Lewis, Chamber of Commerce of Walker County |
| 2007 | Susan Foy, Alexander City Chamber of Commerce |
| 2006 | Rick Roden, Greater Jackson County Chamber |
| 2005 | Vic Cross, Phenix City/Russell County Chamber |
| 2004 | Darrelyn Bender, Eastern Shore Chamber |
| 2003 | John Seymour, Decatur/Morgan County Chamber |
| 2002 | Sherri J. Sumners CCE, Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce |
| 2001 | Steve Holt CCE, CEC, Shoals Chamber of Commerce |
| 2000 | Melissa Cook, Arab Chamber of Commerce |
| 1999 | Melissa Cook, Arab Chamber of Commerce |
| 1998 | Ralph Stacy CAE, Greenville Area Chamber of Commerce |
| 1997 | Karen Ream, Greater Shelby Chamber of Commerce |
| 1996 | Norma McCollum, Athens/Limestone County Chamber of Commerce |
| 1995 | Larry J. Waller CCE, Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce |
| 1994 | Mike Clayborne, Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce |
| 1993 | Luanne Hayes, Lake Guntersville Chamber of Commerce |
| 1992 | Joseph Rutkowski, Enterprise Chamber of Commerce |
| 1991 | Vic Cross IOM, Phenix City/Russell County Chamber of Commerce |
| 1990 | Jamie Wallace, Selma/Dallas County Chamber of Commerce |
| 1989 | Gail Alsobrook, Auburn Chamber of Commerce |
| 1988 | Johnnie Aycock, Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama |
| 1987 | Mike Gaymon, Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce |
| 1986 | Jim Bradley, Eufaula/Barbour Chamber of Commerce |
| 1985 | Hattie Little Smith, South Baldwin Chamber of Commerce |
| 1984 | Joe McCluney, Chamber of Commerce of Walker County |
| 1983 | Luther Brock, Dothan Chamber of Commerce |
| 1982 | Henry J. Stern, Opelika Chamber of Commerce |
| 1981 | Randall L. George, Montgomery Chamber of Commerce |
| 1980 | DC.E. (Slim) Landrum, Huntsville Chamber of Commerce |
| 1979 | Marrion B. Rambeau, Mobile Chamber of Commerce |
| 1978 | Thomas Quinn, Tuscaloosa Chamber of Commerce |
| 1977 | William R. Tillery, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce |
| 1976 | Hattie Little Smith, South Baldwin Chamber of Commerce |
| 1975 | James J. Britton, Alabama Chamber |
| 1974 | Peyton A. Thomas, Greenville Chamber of Commerce |
| 1973 | Gerald W. Yarbrough, Phenix City Chamber of Commerce |
| 1972 | Jim L. Odum, Florence Chamber of Commerce |
| 1971 | C.D. Davenport, Tuscaloosa Chamber of Commerce |
| 1970 | Frank Akers, Anniston Chamber of Commerce |
| 1969 | Howard Lamar, Troy Chamber of Commerce |
| 1968 | John E. Steger, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce |
| 1967 | Richard C. Ordway, Decatur Chamber of Commerce |
| 1966 | Thomas L. Blake, Montgomery Chamber of Commerce |
| 1965 | J. Lyman Mason, Sylacauga Chamber of Commerce |
| 1964 | A.A. Weiskopf, Mobile Chamber of Commerce |
| 1963 | Joe A. McCluney, Jasper Chamber of Commerce |
| 1962 | Arthur G. Springer, Jr. Talladega Chamber of Commerce |
| 1962 | Edmond E. Debter, Sheffield Chamber of Commerce |
| 1961 | Jimmy Walker, Huntsville Chamber of Commerce |
| 1960 | Harold Laubscher, Jasper Chamber of Commerce |
| 1959 | Christie Summers, Jasper Chamber of Commerce |
| 1958 | Lowell S. Hamilton, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce |
| 1957 | Jack Nealeans, Sylacauga Chamber of Commerce |
| 1956 | William H. Ivey, Tuscaloosa Chamber of Commerce |
| 1955 | William D. Sims, Montgomery Chamber of Commerce |
| 1954 | P.B. Raiford, Tuscaloosa Chamber of Commerce |
| 1953 | Roger Milroy, Anniston Chamber of Commerce |
| 1952 | Seldon Bailey, Dothan Chamber of Commerce |
| 1951 | William Sharp, Opelika Chamber of Commerce |