Month: April 2019

Dr Lee Smee chair university programs and senior marine scientist II Dauphin Island Sea Lab associate professor of marine science university south Alabama
Native of Georgia Flowery Branch
Undergraduate Piedmont College 96
Masters Georgia Southern university 98
Taught community college for 3 years
Returned to grad school for PhD at Georgia tech in 2001 earning doctorate in 2006
Faculty position at Texas a and m Corpus Christi 2006-2018 before joining Dauphin island
Married to sandy Smee 21 years, two children Joseph 14 and Lily 8. Eagle Scout and Assistant scoutmaster troop 292 in Mobile. Rotary member downtown Corpus Christi club 2011-2018 Paul Harris Fellow

Meg McCrummen Fowler is director of the History Museum of Mobile. She is also a doctoral candidate at Tulane University, completing a PhD in Art History & Society. Meg came to the Museum from the University of South Alabama, where she served as a Visiting Scholar in the Center for the Study of War and Memory and as an instructor in Department of Art and Art History. She holds a BA in History and French from The University of Alabama and an MA in History of Art from Tulane University. Her museum experience includes a fellowship in 2018 at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Meg grew up in Mobile and now lives in midtown with her husband, James.

Mayor William “Sandy” Stimpson Biography
Sandy’s mission is for Mobile to become the safest, most business and family friendly City in America by 2020. His visionary goal to unite the City, known as One Mobile, has empowered every Mobilian to have a voice. He was first elected in 2013. During his first term, he worked hard to address issues of public safety, fiscal responsibility, downtown revitalization, and blight eradication. He was reelected by a landslide in 2017.
Sandy’s civic and business endeavors, both locally and statewide, have been numerous and varied. He has served on the boards of the Boys & Girls Club of Southwest Alabama; the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce; the Alabama Policy Institute; and the Business Council of Alabama; the University of Alabama President’s Cabinet; and the University of South Alabama’s Board of Trustees. Sandy graduated from the University of Alabama in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. He spent nearly forty years in the lumber manufacturing business. Sandy and his wife Jean have been married since 1975 and have four grown, married children and twelve grandchildren. They are longtime, active members of Ashland Place United Methodist Church.

Tonie Ann Coumanis Torrans
Tonie Ann served in the United States Peace Corps in Kingston, Jamaica where she helped set up a Social Work Department in the Bustamante Hospital for Children (the only children-specific hospital in the Caribbean)- 1989-1991
Tonie Ann worked as a Medical Social Worker for nearly 15 years at Providence Hospital before coming to Penelope House in March 2007
Tonie Ann received her Masters in Social Work at the University of Southern Mississippi and her undergraduate degree in Sociology with a Social Work Emphasis at the University of Southern Mississippi where she played Varsity Volleyball for four years and was a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority
Currently, Tonie Ann is the Executive Director of Penelope House, attends the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, and is a member of the Junior League of Mobile and NASW (National Association of Social Workers)
Tonie Ann is the proud mother of two sons: ages 15 and 13

Special Agent Steve Sorrells currently serves as the Senior Team Leader on the FBI’s Evidence Response Team in the Mobile Office. SA Sorrells has served as an agent for 20 years in New York and Mobile. SA Sorrells currently is a member of the FBI’s Adjunct Faculty teaching crime scene courses to local and state officers, other FBI agents, and police officers in foreign countries.
Rachel Byrd Bio – Rachel Byrd currently serves as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) for the FBI Office in Mobile. She has been with the FBI for 15 years. After initially being assigned to the Honolulu Division, she served in the FBI Laboratory before moving to serve as a Supervisory Special Resident Agent in the Jackson Division. ASAC Byrd returned to Mobile (her hometown) in October of 2017