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Red Mountain Park is owned and administered by the Red Mountain Greenway and Recreational Area Commission. In 2007, the Alabama legislature declared the Commission a state agency, giving it exclusive control over the Park site. The Commission has oversight of every aspect of the planning and development of Red Mountain Park. Each of the 15 commissioners is selected by one of eight appointing bodies.
Peter Allsopp
Commission Chair
U.S. Steel (retired)
U.S. Steel Appointee
Peter has been involved with development and recruitment for projects in the Oxmoor Valley at the foot of Red Mountain for 15 years. As a manager of commercial development and sales for USS Real Estate with previous commissioner Tom Howard, his involvement with the Park goes back to 1999. While working on early park concepts, it became compelling to Tom and Peter that the scope needed to be enlarged to take in the full length of the mountain. They also realized that the magnitude of the project was almost too large to grasp without a clear message, descriptive maps and strategic partners.
Jennifer Andress
City Councilor, Ward 5, Place 1
City of Homewood
Jefferson County Commission Appointee
Evanne Batain Gibson
President, West End Community
City of Birmingham
Jefferson County House of Representatives Delegation Appointee
Ashley Curry
City of Vestavia Hills
Jefferson County Mayors Assoc. Appointee
Ashley Curry is the current Mayor of Vestavia Hills. He attended college at the University of Alabama. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Industrial Management and worked in production supervision, sales and accounting with Milliken & Company of Spartanburg, SC. After obtaining an MBA degree from the University of South Carolina, he joined the FBI as a Special Agent in 1978 and was assigned to the Tampa field office. In 1980 he was transferred to Birmingham where he remained until his retirement in 2003. During his tenure with the FBI, he worked a myriad of criminal investigations to include, white collar crime, organized crime, public corruption, drugs, personal crimes and property crimes. Prior to his retirement, he worked as the FBI Police Training Coordinator where he handled the training of state and local police officers.
After the Bureau, he became the Assistant Federal Security Director for Law Enforcement with the newly-created U.S. Department of Homeland Security, specifically the Transportation Security Administration and was assigned to the Birmingham International Airport. In 2005, he left law enforcement and moved back into the corporate arena as the corporate recruiter for EBSCO Industries. In this capacity, he handled the recruitment of executive level positions within the company's 30 different business units. He retired from EBSCO in 2014.
Armand DeKeyser
Alabama Humanities Foundation
Gubernatorial Appointee
Paul DeMarco
Parsons, Lee & Juliano, P.C.
Jennifer Egbe
Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart, LLP
Birmingham Mayoral Appointee
Professor Emerita of Architecture
Jefferson County Senate Delegation Appointee
Cheryl is a licensed architect and Emerita Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture of Auburn University. In thirty years of teaching she worked with architectural programs at Georgia Institute of Technology, Oklahoma State and California College of Arts and Crafts. For the last 12 years of her teaching career she was the Director of Auburn's Urban Studio in Birmingham, Alabama. Under Cheryl's leadership, the Urban Studio's Small Town Design Initiative Program worked with over 75 small towns and neighborhoods in Alabama.
Morgan practiced architecture and urban design in the San Francisco Bay Area. She worked with a number of firms including Environmental Planning and Research, Gensler, and the Gruzen Partnership. Before coming to Auburn in 1992 she was an associate with the Berkeley firm of ELS/Elbasani and Logan. Morgan's professional practice now focuses on urban design, community revitalization and graphic design. She is also an experienced facilitator.
Cheryl holds two degrees from Auburn University: a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Arts (Sociology). Her Master of Architecture degree is from the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana. She is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards and is a member and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
In 2007, she was named a "Woman of Distinction" by the Cahaba Council of the Girls Scouts and in 2010 received the Thomas Jefferson Award from the Jefferson County Historical Commission as well as being named to a Woman of Distinction Leadership Award by Auburn's Women's Resource Center.
In 2011 she was presented with the Alabama Chapter of the American Planning Association's Distinguished Leadership Award recognizing her as a "Friend of Planning. " In 2012 she received one of Auburn University's highest awards for Achievement in Outreach. She was co-chair with Bill Jones for the Rotary Club of Birmingham's Rotary Trail, which opened in May of 2016.
Gary Richardson
City of Midfield
Gary has been the mayor of the Birmingham suburb of Midfield since 2004, but his involvement in the Birmingham community dates back many years. Among numerous civic and charitable activities, Gary has been president of the Midfield Neighborhood Association and the Midfield Voters League, chaired the advisory board for the Broadcasting program at Jefferson State Community College, served as vice chair of the Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity, and is a commissioner of both Red Mountain Park and the Railroad Reservation Park. He also has been vice president of the Jefferson County Mayors Association.
Crystal Smitherman
City Councilor, District 6
Birmingham City Council Appointee
Tom Spencer
Senior Research Associate
Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama
Freshwater Land Trust Appointee
Tom Spencer is a Senior Research Associate for the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama. He has spent nearly two decades in journalism, most recently with The Birmingham News. He has a diversified background, researching and writing on a wide variety of topics including the environment, education, economics, governmental and community affairs, politics and civil rights. His work has earned top national, regional and state awards. A Birmingham native, Spencer is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
Jeff Traywick
Vice President of Economic Development
Birmingham Business Alliance
Cameron Vowell
Commission Secretary
Community Volunteer
Cameron has been one of Alabama's leading voices on environmental issues for many years. Cameron has served for nearly a decade as a member of the Nature Conservancy's national board of directors. In addition to her environmental advocacy, Cameron's civic leadership in Birmingham and Alabama extends in several other directions. She recently completed five years as a member of the Alabama Ethics Commission, and continues to be closely involved with the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham and the Women's Fund. She also takes an active interest in geriatrics, serving on the Board of Advocacy at UAB's Center for Aging.
Mark Waggoner
Hand Arendall, LLC
An attorney with the Birmingham law firm of Hand Arendall, LLC, Mark has focused much of his practice on environmental protection and employment issues. He chaired the Alabama State Bar Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section from 2007-08, and was a member of the Birmingham Bar Association's Grievance Committee from 2001-04. Mark's civic involvements have included serving on the Environmental Committee of the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce, and on the board of the Alabama Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Rosalind Young
Tarpley City Neighborhood Association
Former Commissioner
Ervin Battain
Park Entrance
2011 Frankfurt Drive Birmingham, AL 35211
283 Lyon Lane Birmingham, AL 35211
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