of Books-A-Million, Driving After Dark chairman; Paul Ebert of Optimal IMX, president; Alyssa Hagan of HealthSouth; Leigh Hart of Pearce, Bevill, Leesburg, Moore; Heath Henderson of UBS Financial Services; Kimberly Jackson of Alabama Power Co.; Rick Jackson of CBS 42; Graham Johnson of Brasfield & Gorrie; Abbott Jones of Christian & Small; Nicole Killam of Ernst & Young; Michelle Lorino of IMS, event director; Michael Mettee of BBVA Compass; Rebecca Mosley of RBC Bank; Dr. Sarah Parcak of UAB; Virginia Quigley of Brasfield & Gorrie; Matt Register of ITAC Solutions; Mike Roy of Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services, sponsorship chairman; Haley Simonetti of Sellers, Richardson, Holman & West, secretary/treasurer; Joel Snead of Robins & Morton; Jason Tompkins of Balch & Bingham; Justin Weintraub of Colonial Properties Trust; and Brian Wetta of Hospice Partners of America. The board includes young professionals who help provide services to more than 3,000 children and adults with disabilities in the Birmingham area. The group sponsors two annual fundraising events, Driving After Dark and Vino and Van Gogh, which helped raise more than $40,000 for UCP this year.
Williams Is Eagle Scout Jamie Williams, a member of Troop 93 at Oakmont Presbyterian Church in Hoover, has earned the Eagle Award. He has been in scouting since the second grade with Pack 326 and continued his scouting adventure with Troop 226 and currently Troop 93. He attended many trips and scout camps over the years. Williams has been patrol leader, assistant patrol leader, senior Jamie Williams patrol leader, quartermaster and scribe. He earned 29 merit badges, two 50 Miler Awards, the World Conservation Award and the Order of the Arrow. His Eagle project was an extension of his brothers’ Eagle projects. He built a teacher podium for the outdoor classroom at Gwin Elementary School in Hoover. He also refurbished the area with new perimeter landscape timbers, birdhouses, mulch and perennial plants. Gwin students use the outdoor classroom as an extension of science classes to grow fruits, plants and vegetables. The area is also a memorial to a teacher, Gwen Winnegee, who passed away many years ago. Williams’ Eagle Court of Honor was Dec. 6 at Oakmont Church. He is the son of Randy and Nancy Williams of Hoover.
The LFA is an international affiliation of law firms created to provide a vehicle for clients to obtain competent and responsive legal services by providing Donald M. Wright a network of member firms for referral of legal matters. Sirote is the only Alabama member of the LFA, which has member firms in 36 states and 11 countries. At Sirote, Wright is chairman of the firm’s Consumer Bankruptcy Practice Group and represents creditors, trustees, committees and debtors in complex bankruptcy proceedings. He handles a wide variety of commercial
litigation in state and federal court and also pre-litigation matters that routinely arise in bankruptcy proceedings or that involve creditors’ rights and creditor liability issues.
Bell Center Makes Changes The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs announced two recent changes in its management team. Longtime program director Betty Bell has been named founding director, and assistant program director Andi Gillen has been promoted to program director. Bell has long been considered as responsible for bringing early intervention to Birmingham. She ran the Center for Developmental Learning Disabilities at UAB from its inception in 1970 to its closing 13 years later. Following a brief stint with the Jefferson County Health Department,
Bell was approached by the Service Guild of Birmingham to help start a private nonprofit providing early intervention services. This forerunner to the Bell Center was established in the fall of 1984. Bell has a degree in nursing from the University of Texas and a master’s degree in developmental nursing from the University of Florida. She has worked for children with special needs and their families for 47 years. Gillen joined the Bell Center in 2004 as an early childhood special education teacher and was named curriculum coordinator in 2005. She assumed the duties of assistant program director in 2008. She previously worked with the Mountain Brook School System’s Special Opportunities Preschool Program. Before working for the Bell Center, Gillen volunteered there as a member of the Service Guild.
She has a bachelor’s degree in child and family development from Ohio University and received her master’s degree in education from California University of Pennsylvania. She earned a master’s degree in early childhood special education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. ❖
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Wright Appointed to LFA Board Sirote & Permutt shareholder Donald M. Wright has been elected to serve a two-year term as a Law Firm Alliance board member.
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