Board of Directors and Staff

Todd Trenchard
Executive Director

Todd is the Executive Director of the Bacot McCarty Foundation. He hosts a weekly television show on WGUD TV19 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 22 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 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 fifteen years.
 
He graduated with Highest Honors from USM, 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 awarded the prestigious Silver Beaver Award by the Boy Scouts of America, the MS Legal Services Corporation selected him as the State of 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

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Tannas Alexander

Professional Assistant 

Avery Loper

College Assistant

Bettina Boland

Senior Assistant

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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Tannas Alexander

Professional Assistant

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Avery Loper

College Assistant 

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Bettina Boland

Senior 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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Joe Martin

Vice-Chairman

Vicki Rosetti-Applewhite

Secretary

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Marshall Smith

Treasurer

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Emeritus Board

Evelyn McCarty

Lee Bond

Bobby Edwards

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Board of Directors

Phillip Pogue

Paul Clark

Summer Davis Shelby

Vince Schwartz

Melanie Clark

General Jeff Hammond

Tony Petro

Susan Santos

Brenda Simkins

Cedrick Hurd

Angel Risley

Michael Sunderman

Charlie Oakes

Landon McCarty

Joey Conwill

Dan Hunter

Christian Hartley