ACCOUNTING
Steve Sledge, CPA, has joined Anglin Reichmann Armstrong as an audit partner in the firm’s Huntsville office.
Kassouf has promoted Anita Atkinson and James Dicks to shareholders; Stewart Garner and Dawn Jones to principals; Margaret Novak to manager; Carrie McElroy and Charles Hyde to senior; and Chris Gunner to associate. In addition, the firm hired Dwayne Newsome and Eugenia Thompson.
BANKING
FirstBank has expanded into Tuscaloosa and hired Chuck Bracknell as market president, senior vice president charged with building the area team.
Bank Independent has promoted Sabrina Rouse to sales manager of its Athens downtown sales office and Tiffany Dostica to sales specialist at its Russellville Village Square sales office in Franklin County.
Citizens Trust Bank has appointed Walvid King Sr. as its Alabama Market president.
CONSTRUCTION
Tracey Gould has joined SS&A Design Collective as director of business development.
Tim Harrison, of Harrison Construction Co., has been named the 2024 Charles H. Land Member of the Year by the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama.
Charlotte Kopf, Alabama Associated General Contractors Mobile Section manager, has announced her retirement after 50 years with the organization. Carol Harris, who is currently associate section manager, will succeed Kopf as section manager.
EDUCATION
Samita Jeter, Lowndes County superintendent, has been named the Outstanding Superintendent of the Year by the Alabama Education Association.
Alabama State University Foundation has named Brandon Hurst, a Chick-fil-A franchise owner and ASU alumni, to its board.Â
Angus Cooper III, president of The Cooper Group of Companies, has been elected to represent the First Congressional District on the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees.
FINANCIAL PLANNING
Paula McQueen has joined Park Place Capital as finance operations manager. She is based in the company’s Birmingham headquarters.
FITNESS
Ignite Cycle has named Amy Stanaland as executive director of its Mountain Brook and Pepper Place locations.
HEALTH CARE
The Alabama Hospital Association has named Robert Dumas, a board member of East Alabama Healthcare Authority, its 2025 Trustee of the Year award.
Cullman Regional Medical Center CEO James Clements has been appointed to serve on the Statewide Health Coordinating Council. The SHCC develops the Alabama State Health Plan and advises the state on health planning and resource development.
Tena Knight has been promoted to vice president of support services at Southeast Health.
LEGAL
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has launched the Defense & National Security team with partner Jack Harrington leading the team. In addition, the firm has added J. Allen Sullivan Jr. to its Corporate & Securities and Tax practice groups.
Butler Snow LLP has added Stephen Davis and Jordan Hennig to the firm’s Labor & Employment Group in the Huntsville office.
Methvin, Terrell, Yancey, Stephens & Miller PC has promoted Courtney Gipson to shareholder.
MARKETING
NP Strategy, a communications firm that is a subsidiary of Maynard Nexsen, has named Amanda Lovelady CEO and Jean Cecil Frick chief operating officer. Heather Hoopes-Matthews, who led NP Strategy since its inception in 2013, is taking on a client-facing role.
ORGANIZATIONS
Communities Unlimited Inc., a nonprofit with operations in Alabama and other Southern states, has named Russ Garner as director of community sustainability.
REAL ESTATE
Sam Winter & Co. Real Estate has added Sue King to its team.
These Career Notes appear in the April 2025 issue of Business Alabama.
