A.C. Roper 
Committee Chair
Army Lieutenant General (RET.)
Former Birmingham Chief of Police

Don Lupo
Operations Manager
Mayor's Office
City of Birmingham 

David P. Burford
Committee Vice Chair
Major General (RET.)
United States Army

Steve Pierson
Executive Committee Member 
Director of Convention Sales
Greater Birmingham CVB

Jim Darden
Major General (RET.) 
United States Army 
USAR Ambassador Emeritus

Steve Ammons
President & CEO
Birmingham Business Alliance

U.S. Senator Katie Boyd Britt
(R-Ala.)
Senator, United States Senate

President Pro Tempore
Garlan Gudger Jr. 
Alabama State Senate 

Dr. Jack Hawkins, Jr. 
Chancellor
Troy University

Governor Kay Ivey 
Governor of the State of Alabama

Doug Jones
Former U.S. Senate - Alabama

Dr. Darrell O'Quinn
Councilman
Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs

Gary J. Palmer
U.S. Representative
Alabama’s Sixth Congressional District

Lee Sentell
Director of Tourism 
State of Alabama 

Congresswoman Terri Sewell
U.S. House of Representatives, Alabama

Senator Rodger Mell Smitherman
Alabama State Senate

Ted Snider
Executive Director & CEO Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center Authority

Jimmie Stephens
President
 Jefferson County Commission

Dr. Mark Sullivan
Superintendent
 Birmingham City Schools

Shelia Tyson
Jefferson County Commissioner

Senator JT Waggoner
Alabama State Senate

Randall L. Woodfin
Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama

Steve Ammons
Chief Executive Officer
Birmingham Business Alliance

Jessica L. Black
Chief Strategy Officer
Greater Birmingham Convention & Visitors Bureau

Brent Cotton 
Associate Director of Convention Servicing
Greater Birmingham CVB

Michael J. Davis, II
Government Relations
Balch & Bingham

Rick A. Dearborn
Partner
Mindset

Mike Gunn
Senior Vice President of Convention Sales
Greater Birmingham CVB

Col. Alan B. Miller, USMCR
President & CEO
American Village 

Brigadier General Jeff Newton (RET). 
Commissioner
Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs

Mark Ryan
Past President
National Veterans Day in Birmingham 

Harry Sessamen
Secretary and Agent
Blue Star Salute Foundation