Board of Directors
Joe McEnerney, President
Joe McEnerney served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Credit Officer of First National Bank of Baldwin County from December 2001 to July 2008. From August 1990 to December 2001, McEnerney served as the Senior Commercial Lender and Sales Manager for Regions Bank of Shelby County and managed a commercial lending group of five commercial lenders with a loan portfolio of $150 million. McEnerney received an undergraduate degree and MS degree in Environmental Sciences form Auburn University and an MBA from Indiana University with a specialty in finance and operations.
McEnerney is involved in various community activities including Campaign Chairman for the Boy Scouts of America, Board member and officer of the Auburn Alumni Association, Treasurer of the Fairhope Airport Authority, a participant in Leadership Shelby County, and as a Board member and officer of the Alabama Coastal Foundation. McEnerney is married to the former Jane Jackson of Lakeland, Florida and they are the parents of two teenage daughters, Anne who is a junior at the University of Alabama and Nancy, who is a senior at Fairhope High school. The McEnerney’s live in Point Clear.
Catherine Hall Kiser, Vice President
Catherine is the owner of Catherine Hall Designs, based out of Fairhope. She is a LEED accredited professional and an NCIDQ qualified interior designer. Kiser holds dual degrees in Interior Design and Architecture from Auburn University. Prior to running her own business, Kiser worked for Walcott Adams Verneuille Architects, where she was part of the design team for several LEED projects and designed a variety of residential and commercial projects. In addition to her work as a sustainable building consultant and designer, Kiser enjoys designing custom furniture, sailing, gardening and pursues her belief in protecting the environment by serving on the board of the Alabama Coastal Foundation.
Brooks Delaney, Treasurer
Brooks Delaney has spent the majority of his life on and around the waters of South Alabama. Growing up on Dog River in a family where fishing, boating, and waterskiing were a way of life, Brooks developed a keen appreciation for our coastal region. A resident of Fairhope, Delaney has a young family that he is raising to share similar interests by actively enjoying our local rivers, bays, and the Gulf of Mexico.
Delaney's company, Edgewater Management, invests in and operates several small business interests along the gulf coast, in the areas of construction, mining, building material production, and real estate development. He holds an undergraduate finance degree from Auburn University, and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Alabama.
Tom Schlinkert, Secretary
Tom Schlinkert is a resident of Baldwin County whose home is on Wolf Bay in the Josephine community. An avid sailor and outdoorsman, Schlinkert moved to coastal Alabama in 1995 after many years as a part time resident.
Schlinkert's company, Schlinkert Sports Associates, the company Tom founded 28 years ago, specializes in the sales and marketing of outdoor, paddle sports and sailing products to retailers in the southeast. His interest in marketing coupled with his deep commitment to the conservation of Alabama’s coast drew him to his current involvement as a board member at Alabama Coastal Foundation. Look for his fingerprints on such things as ACF’s new logo, graphic design and T-shirt art.
Dr. Brenda Litchfield
Brenda Litchfield is a Professor in the Instructional Design and Development program at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. Litchfield taught science in grades K-12 for 11 years in public schools. She also taught at Florida State University and has been at the University of South Alabama for 19 years. Litchfield currenty teaches educational psychology, project coordination, instructional learning theories, and design and development of training courseware at the graduate level. She also teaches secondary science methods courses. LItchfield received her BS in Elementary Education from the University of Florida, her Master's in Science Education from the University of North Florida, and her Ph.D. in Instructional Systems from Florida State University. Her research interests are in the areas of motivation, metacognition, and self-regulated learning especially in online courses.
Litchfield is active in environmental education and has directed the development of several activity books and multimedia projects for the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, US Fish and Wildlife, and state environmental organizations. She conducts teacher training workshops for her university and local school systems throughout the area. She has taught online courses since 1998 and teaches courses on how to design online courses. With her husband, Dr. Jack Dempsey, and Neil Johnston, she designed, developed, and produced Ribbits’ Big Splash and Skeeter’s Wild Adventures CD-ROMs on conservation and environmental education.
Sam St. John
Sam St. John is President of Logical Computer Solutions, a computer network integration and service company with offices in Mobile and Baldwin counties. His background is in Chemical Engineering and and he worked with Fortune 500 companies in electronics and factory automation before starting his own company in this area. St.John is married and has three children in college. In his spare time likes to fish, kayak and fly his amphibious airplane observing Alabama and Mississippi coastal resources.
Neil Johnston
Hand Arendall, LLC
Sean Coley
The Guarantee Title Company
Rod Platt
Red Drum Marketing
Mike Manning
Thompson Engineering
Tom Ward
Springhill College, History Professor