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2025 – 2026 Board of Directors
2025 – 2026 Board of Directors
Birmingham Zoo, Inc.
Board Officers
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Lee McKinney
Chair
McKinney Capital
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Austin Davis
Vice-Chair
Wholesale Banking – Synovus
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Jerry F. Perkins, Jr.
Treasurer
Vulcan Materials Company
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Daron Drew
Secretary
UAB and Maxwell Tillman
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Tommy Sisson
Past Chair
Warren Averett
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Board Members
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Robert Aland
SouthState Bank
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Tony Ankar
O’Neal Industries, Inc.
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Andrew Buck
Protective Life Corporation
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Jack Darnall
Darnall Investment Group
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Bing Edwards
Fortif Law Partners, LLC
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David Faulkner
Christian & Small LLP Alabama House of Representatives
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Emily Wood Bowron Forehand
Red Diamond Coffee and Tea
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Nancy Collat Goedecke
Bay Pine Holding
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Daagye Hendricks
UAB
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Tim Hennessy, Jr.
Concepts & Associates, Inc.
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Randall W. Jordan
Bryant Bank
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Philippe W. Lathrop
Lathrop Helmers Group Peritus Wealth Management
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Matt Lyden
Medical Properties Trust
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Chaz C. Mitchell
Chief of Operations Office of Mayor Randall L. Woodfin City of Birmingham
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Wally Nall, III
Nall Development Corporation
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Wes Quattlebaum
First Horizon Bank
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Leslie Sanders
Alabama Power Company
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Dawn Rock-Tremble
Encompass Health
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Crystal Gunn Witherspoon
Community Volunteer
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Chase Wright
Spire Energy
Ex-Officio
CEO
Chris Pfefferkorn
President & CEO, Birmingham Zoo
Junior Board President
Holton Bell
SouthState Bank
Emeritus
Arthur C.P. Henley, Emeritus
Paper Airplane, Inc.
Colin H. Luke, Emeritus
Holland & Knight, LLP
Michael D. Thompson, Emeritus
Thompson Tractor
Jesse S. Vogtle, Jr., Emeritus
Holland & Knight, LLP
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Birmingham, AL 35223
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