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Leadership Team

Melanie Jacobi Rhodes

Executive Director

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Ty Jackson

In Loving Memory of our Senior Director of Programs

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Steve Ladner

Senior Director of Operations & Finance

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Program Teams

Miranda Taylor

FocusFirst Director

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Cammie Wolfe

FocusFirst Training & Operations Manager

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Ashley Brown

FocusFirst Scheduling & Processing Coordinator

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David Beutel

FocusFirst Processing Coordinator

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Alexandria Means

HomeFirst Director

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Lee Quinn

SpeakFirst Director

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Operations Team

Grace Standridge

Director of Operations & Community Partnerships

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Sarah Allison

Volunteer & Operations Manager

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Ruth Allison

Fiscal Manager

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Kaitlin Nobles

Development Manager

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Board of Directors

David Rooney

Cornea & Cataract Consultants

Mark Whiteside

Truist Bank

Katy Eldridge

Maynard Nexsen

Mary Boehm

Birmingham City School Board

Rob Couch

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings (retired)

Francine Fenderson

Jefferson Co. Dept. of Health

J’la Jenkins

Tennessee Department of Health

James “Jim” Kennemer

Vision Research Corporation

Frank McPhillips

Maynard Cooper & Gale, P.C. (retired)

Jennifer Moore

Maynard Nexsen

Carl Muller

Carl F. Muller, Attorney at Law, P. A.

Julie Portera

Protective Life

Deak Rushton

James Rushton I Foundation

Courtney Stephens

EBSCO Industries

Allan “Buddy” Thompson

Ophthalmologist (retired)