BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens is pleased to announce its 2014 Board of Directors.
Hanson Slaughter will serve his first term as president, taking over for Past President Tricia Noble.
Scott Walton returns as treasurer and Barbara Burton will serve her second term as secretary.
Brian Barr will serve as president-elect.
Houston Gillespy will assume the role of vice president of development, while
Elizabeth Broughton serves as vice president of gardens and buildings.
Charles Goodrich will serve as governance chair.
Robert Holmes will serve as an officer and chair of SPACE (Stakeholders, Partnerships and Community Engagement) while Beverly Hoyt will serve as an officer and chair of special events committee.
There are six new members for 2014: John Hudson, John Hurst, Turner Inscoe, Paul Jones, Katie Baker Lasker and Junior Board President Robert MacArthur. Five 2013 board members will rotate off: Laurie Allen, Margi Ingram, Lucy Tutwiler, Mary Williamson and Lou Willie.
Completing the 2014 Birmingham Botanical Gardens Board of Directors are: Cathy Adams, Mary Boehm, Chris Boles, Emily Bowron, Maggie Brooke, Gary Burley, Clarke Gillespy, Tricia Holbrook, Carl Jones, Kathryn Porter and Jeanie Sherlock.
