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.
Courtney Anderson
Development Director
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Ralph, Molly & Dolly
Office Mascots
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.
Foundation Staff
Todd Trenchard
Executive Director
Courtney Anderson
Development Director
Teri Frietas
Admin Assistant
Jason Keenum
CPA
Ralph, Molly & Dolly
Office Mascots
Executive Board
Kevin Miller
Chairman
Rich Westfall
Past-Chairman
Phillip Pogue
Vice-Chairman
Summer Shelby
Secretary
Marshall Smith
Treasurer
Joe Martin
At Large
Emeritus Board
Evelyn McCarty
Lee Bond
Bobby Edwards
Board of Directors
Paul Clark
Vicki Applewhite
Vince Schwartz
Melanie Clark
General Jeff Hammond
Jill Compton
Dan Hunter
Anthony McCorvey
Angel Risley
Michael Sunderman
Charlie Oakes
Landon McCarty
Joey Conwill
Jennifer Cochran
Brenda Simkins
