Past Alabama PRSA Presidents
2025 – Ally Dorrough, APR
2024 - Briana Bryant, MPA, APR
2023 - LaShana Sorrell, APR
2022 - Betsy Emmons, APR
2021 - Meg W. Burton, APR
2020 - Rachel Olis, APR
2019 - John M. Matson, APR
2018 - Philip Poole, APR, Fellow PRSA
2017 - Missy Burchart, APR, Fellow PRSA
2016 - Julie Ross Senter, APR
2015 - Kevin Storr, APR
2014 - Louise C. Oliver, APR
2013 - David Majors, APR
2012 - Michael Sznajderman, APR
2011 - Brandon Wilson, APR, Fellow PRSA
2010 - Charles Bloom
2009 - Melanie Davis, APR
2008 - Mitch Edwards, APR
2007 - Kathie Martin, APR
2006 - Garland Stansell, APR
2005 - Stacy Smith, APR, Fellow PRSA
2004 - Jo Alice Driggers
2003 - Sherry Hopper Gill, APR
2002 - Kathleen H. Roth
2001 - Michael Taft Jones, APR
2000 - Marianne B. Sharbel
1999 - Marianne B. Sharbel
1998 - Ross Mitchell
1997 - Linda H. Baker
1996 - Jean W. Colquett
2025 Board of Directors
President
Buffy L. Lockette, APR
Coca-Cola UNITED
President-Elect
Hanlon Walsh, APR
PERITUS public relations
Secretary
Kendra Carter, MPA, APR
Auburn University
Treasurer
Carla Jean Whitley, APR
Brasfield & Gorrie
Immediate Past President
Ally (Mills) Dorrough, APR, TMP
Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Tourism and Sports Commission
Accreditation Chair
Eliza Heidelberg Keasler, APR
Buffalo Rock
Community Service Chair
Joycelyn Haywood
Heart Gallery Alabama
Communications Chair
Ashton Adams
Brasfield & Gorrie
Diversity Chair
Tiffany Lacey Nabors, MAT, APR
Encompass Health
Ethics Chair
Denise Berkhalter-Miller, APR
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship
Membership Chair
Brittany Fillmore, APR
Columbia Southern University
Professional Development Chair
Lori Quiller, APR, Fellow PRSA
Booz Allen Hamilton
Programs Chair
Allison Taylor
Southeastern Diabetes Education Services
PRSSA Liaison
Sara Franklin, APR
SK Life Science
Regional Coordinators
Central Alabama
Dr. Simone Byrd, Ph.D.
Alabama State University
East Alabama
Buffy L. Lockette, APR
Coca-Cola UNITED
North Alabama
Michelle Eubanks
University of North Alabama
South Alabama
Carson Ordoyne
Southern Air
PRSSA Professional Advisors
Auburn University
Taylor Stewart
The Abbi Agency
Alabama State University
Lori Jhons
Alabama League of Municipalities
Jacksonville State University
Jackson Stickrath
Jack’s Family Restaurant
Mississippi State University
Karyn Brown, M.A., APR
Mississippi State University
Oakwood University
Angela Miller-Riley
o2ideas
Samford University
Sonia Marshburn
Brasfield & Gorrie
The University of Alabama
Sara Franklin, APR
SK Life Science
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Philip Poole, APR, Fellow PRSA
PRSA College of Fellows
University of North Alabama
Blake Williams
Limestone County Economic Development Association