Category: Past Speakers

Biography of Glenda R. Snodgrass
Glenda R. Snodgrass has been lead consultant and project manager at The Net Effect since the company’s inception in 1996. Ms. Snodgrass is primarily engaged in cyber security training, threat analysis and mitigation for commercial, nonprofit and governmental organizations.
In addition to conducting security related workshops, corporate training and delivering cyber security defense presentations at professional conferences and conventions, she spends time drafting network security protocols and developing employee security awareness training programs for clients.
She is President of the Gulf Coast Industrial Security Awareness Council and an active member ofInfraGard, ASIS International, and Gulf Coast Technology Council, as well as numerous civic organizations, Ms.
Snodgrass holds a B.A. from the University of South Alabama (1986) and a matrise from Universite de Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris, France (1989).

Dr. Robert D. Lightfoot is the Executive/Medical Director of Victory Health Partners, a faith based, nonprofit medical clinic formed to provide medical care to low income uninsured patients in the Gulf Coast. It was after serving on several mission trips to Central and South America with his wife, Tami, Dr. Lightfoot realized the need in his own community to provide care to those without health insurance.
Dr. Lightfoot graduated summa cum laude from Auburn University in 1977. He graduated from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in 1981, with honors. After completing his internship and residency at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in 1986, Dr. Lightfoot joined his brother in Mobile, where he has practiced as a general surgeon for 17 years.
Dr. Lightfoot is a member of the Medical Association of Alabama, Mobile County Medical Society, Christian Medical and Dental Association and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery.
Dr. Lightfoot and his wife Tami enjoy spending time with their 6 children and 9 grandchildren. They are active members in their church, Church of His Presence.

David Bagwell
David Bagwell is a retired lawyer who lives in Point Clear. He was President of our club almost a quarter century ago in 1992, was an assistant district governor, and is now a member of the Point Clear Rotary Club. Before he retired he was listed as a Super Lawyer in antitrust law and in what they named “Bet the Company Litigation”, but he would rather be remembered as a decent maritime lawyer, which people understand.
David is a graduate of Vanderbilt University where he and Win Hallett were fraternity brothers. He graduated in 1968, one of those years when the world fell apart. After college he travelled around the world for a year studying international business on a Corning Travelling Fellowship. He reports that all the Corning Fellows but him got rich in business.
David says that he did not learn much in kindergarten, but that in Army Boot Camp he learned everything he needed to know to be a lawyer: how to type and how to bayonet people.
David went to Alabama Law School where he was in the same class with Senator Jeff Sessions. David had a higher grade average than Sen. Sessions did, but Sen. Sessions climbed higher in the world than David did.
David and his wife have three adult children, and seven grandchildren. He likes to fish and shoot birds and read and visit grandchildren.

John is a native of this city and a graduate of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He has been licensed and active in area real estate markets since 1975 and served for over 23 years as member, and later chairman, of the Mobile Zoning Board of Adjustment. He and Allan Cameron founded Peebles & Cameron in 2001, taking up a national relationship with Grubb & Ellis in 2003. When the NAI flag was offered to them in 2010 they became NAI Peebles & Cameron, and in 2013 they merged with the firm of Gleason and Roberds, becoming NAI-Mobile. John is the only dual accredited commercial real estate broker (SIOR and CCIM) in south Alabama. Peebles has redeveloped over 25 historic buildings since returning to Mobile, and is presently engaged in converting a 19th century Masonic lodge on St. Francis Street into 21st century creative space and 16 high end loft apartments. He was an organizer and founding member of the Board of the Downtown Mobile District Management Corporation (the “BID”) and remains actively engaged with the Downtown Alliance and it’s varied enterprises. He was also instrumental in the founding of the Hearin Chandler Mobile Carnival Museum and maintains an active interest in Mardi Gras as a cultural icon in this City. He currently serves on the board of the Alabama School of Math and Science, the Alabama Archives Foundation in Montgomery, the Mobile Arts and Sports Association, and the Friends of Magnolia Cemetery. His past service includes the boards of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and the Mobile History Museum. Peebles is also a serving brother of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. He is married to the former Allison Hand and has two sons aged 27 and 24. He is a communicant of Christ Episcopal Church, where he has served on the vestry and as Warden.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Mobile Area Association of Realtors Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) Mobile Commercial Investment Real Estate Exchange Club Alabama Association of Realtors Mobile Chamber of Commerce Mobile Carnival Museum Downtown Mobile District Management Corporation Downtown Mobile Alliance

Chris Barraza is the Director of Programs for Mobile United, working to create a continuum of development programs for emerging leaders of all ages and backgrounds. She oversees the curriculum, logistics, execution and evaluation of Mobile United’s three programs, Youth Leadership, Connect & Leadership Mobile.
Philadelphia born and bred, Chris graduated from St. Basil’s Academy and then Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania with a major in art history and a minor in psychology. She is currently enrolled in Spring Hill College’s MLA program, concentrating on Leadership & Ethics. Before joining Mobile United as the Administrator of Leadership Mobile, she was a public relations manager at Red Square, the director of marketing and communications for the Centre for the Living Arts and a special events and public relations manager for the City of Mobile for eight years where she instituted the first-ever Mayor’s Citizens Academy.
Chris has had the honor of being recognized by Mobile Bay Magazine’s inaugural 40 Under 40, Main Street Mobile, the History Museum of Mobile, the City of Mobile and was a Leadership Mobile Graduate in 2009 as well as the Dean of the Class of 2014, the two best classes EVER!