Board of Directors and Staff

Todd Trenchard
Executive Director

Todd is a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Bacot McCarty Foundation & hosts a weekly television show on WGUD and WXXV FOX 25

Todd served for years as the Senior Vice President of Public Relations and Business Development for Merchants & Marine Bank. He

was the Community Relations Director of the Home of Grace Recovery Program. He founded and directs a three-quarter way home in

Gautier, MS called Trinity House and has been sober for almost 23 years. He has been the Chairman of the Board of the Salvation

Army, Assistant District Governor and President of the Pascagoula Rotary Club, Chairman of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Habitat for

Humanity organization, Jackson County Chairman of the 2008 Jimmy Carter Work Project, Vice-Chairman of the Gulf Coast YMCA, and

was the founder and Executive Board Member of Rebuild Jackson County. 

Additionally, he is the past President of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Jackson County, past Chairman of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, sits on the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Foundation, the board of Lighthouse School of Dyslexia,  and serves on several other key Board of Directors and Advisory Councils throughout the Gulf Coast region. He founded and has been the co-chairman of "The Jolly" Golf Classic for the past seventeen years.
 
He attended Tulane University and USM graduating with Highest Honors while maintaining a 4.0 GPA throughout his undergraduate and graduate degree programs, is a graduate of Leadership Jackson County, Leadership Mississippi and the Gulf Coast Business Council Master's Leadership Class.
 
Todd has been honored as the Volunteer of the Year by several local agencies, been named a Miracle Maker by the Home of Grace, been awarded the prestigious Silver Beaver Award by the Boy Scouts of America, received the Forever Young Award from Coast Young Professionals, and received the Annette O'Keefe Award from the Mental Health Association of South MS. The MS Legal Services Corporation selected him as Mississippi's Southern Region's Top Community Leader, and in 2007, he was honored by The Sun Herald & Governor Haley Barbour with his induction into the Roland Weeks Hall of Fame as one of South Mississippi's Top Community Leaders. 

Kevin Miller
Chairman

Kevin is a native of Jackson County.  He spent the last 31 years in the banking business, with 23 of those years in Pascagoula.  He is currently the Tax Collector for Jackson County. He is active with the Pascagoula Rotary Club having served as President and Treasurer and currently serves as a Board member.  He serves on the Board of Our Daily Bread.

He has previously served as a Board member of Jackson County Utility Authority, past board president of Boys and Girls Clubs of Jackson County, past board president of American Heart Association and past board president of the Southeast MS Homebuilders Association. He and Joe Martin co- chair The Jolly golf tournament each year. 

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Ralph, Molly & Dolly

Office Mascots

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Ralph has seniority and Molly joined our team in July 2017. Dolly was adopted and all are getting used to each other as they protect the office.

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Foundation Staff

Todd Trenchard

Executive Director

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Courtney Anderson

Development Director

Teri Frietas 

Admin Assistant

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Jason Keenum

CPA

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Ralph, Molly & Dolly

Office Mascots 

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Executive Board

Kevin Miller

Chairman

Rich Westfall

Past-Chairman

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Phillip Pogue

Vice-Chairman

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Summer Shelby

Secretary

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Marshall Smith

Treasurer

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Joe Martin 

At Large

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Emeritus Board

Evelyn McCarty

Lee Bond

Bobby Edwards

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Board of Directors

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Paul Clark

Vicki Applewhite

Vince Schwartz

Melanie Clark

Jill Compton

Dan Hunter

Brenda Simkins

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Anthony McCorvey

Angel Risley

Michael Sunderman

Charlie Oakes

Landon McCarty

Joey Conwill

Jennifer Cochran