Alabama Retail names 2024 officers and directors

The Alabama Retail Association has completed its slate of officers and board of directors for 2024. Their terms of office began Jan. 1.

The officers for 2022 are:

• Chairman:  Michael Gee, president and co-owner, Pants Store, Leeds-based; (Interview with the new chairman);
• Vice Chairman: Susan Anderson, owner and chief financial officer, Eagle Eye Outfitters, Dothan;
• Treasurer:  Bob Akers, vice president, Davis Direct, Montgomery;
• President: Richard E. “Rick” Brown Jr., Alabama Retail Association, Montgomery;

Gee, Anderson, Akers and Brown serve as Alabama Retail’s executive committee along with:

• Immediate Past Chairman:  Jodie Stanfield, owner, Local Joe’s, Rainbow City and Albertville; and
• Executive Committee Designee: Melissa Cross, president and owner, McAleer’s Office Furniture, Mobile and Foley.
• The board secretary is the Alabama Retail Association’s Jennifer Henderson.

The 2024 directors for the Alabama Retail Association are:

• Bob Akers*, Davis Direct, Montgomery
• Susan Anderson*, Eagle Eye Outfitters, Dothan;
• Bradley Bailey**, Bradley’s Market, Tuscaloosa;
• Dustin Beaty, Carbon Hill Drugs, Carbon Hill; Lavish Boutique and Coffee Bar, Jasper and Cullman
• Molly Cagle**, Target, Pike Road;
• Michael Cohen, Cohens Electronics and Appliances Inc., Montgomery;
• Melissa Cross*, McAleer’s Office Furniture, Mobile and Foley;
• 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/Tuscaloosa/Auburn/Hoover;
• Jheovanny Gomez, Jalapeños Mexican Grill, Tuscaloosa/Northport/Cottondale;
• Mandy Henry**, Queen City Market, Selma;
• Howard Johnson, Sneaky Pete’s Hot Dogs, Bessemer;
• David S. Marks III, Marks Furniture Co., Mobile and Spanish Fort;
• Will Meacham, Midtown Pizza Kitchen, Montgomery and Prattville;
• Melissa Parker-Paul, Yancy Parker Lifestyles Inc., Enterprise;
• Katherine Raynor, CVS Health, Atlanta, Ga.;
• Robert A. Robicheaux, Robicheaux LLC, Birmingham;
• Shane Spiller, Spiller Furniture & Mattress, Tuscaloosa/Aliceville/Eutaw/Northport/Prattville/Selma/Thomasville/
  Brent/Demopolis/Greensboro/Reform;
• Jodie Stanfield*, Local Joe’s, Rainbow City and Albertville;
• Beth Staula, Alabama Goods, Homewood, Huntsville and Hoover;
• Lynsey Todd, Monograms Plus of Cullman, Cullman;
• Chad Wester, Boll Weevil Soap Co., Enterprise;
• 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 LLC, 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; Todd Noden, Books-A-Million, Birmingham; 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.