THE ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BOARDS
ANNOUNCES CHANGES TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS

MONTGOMERY, AL – (December 2015) – Several new members of the Alabama Association of School Boards Board of Directors were installed at the close of the 2015 AASB Annual Convention on Dec. 5 in Birmingham.

Former vice president Pam Doyle of the Alabama School of Math and Science Board is now president of the 14-member AASB Board of Directors. For the next two years, she will stand at the helm of an association that serves more than 800 school board members and 143 boards of education. Those school boards provide leadership that impacts the lives of nearly 750,000 schoolchildren.

Doyle steps into the position most recently held by Katy Smith Campbell of the Macon County school board. Campbell remains on the AASB board as immediate past president. James Woosley of the Satsuma school board is the association’s new vice president, having previously been the District 1 director. The remaining one year of Woosley’s two-year term as District 1 director will be fulfilled by Shannon Cauley of the Baldwin County school board.

AASB also welcomes Mike Oakley of the Bibb County school board to its board of directors. Oakley was elected by school boards in AASB District 2 to replace Donald Nichols of Perry County. Nichols served two terms, the maximum allowed under the AASB Bylaws. AASB has nine districts representing geographical areas of the state.

“This board of directors brings high energy, a variety of expertise and proven leadership to the table,” said AASB Executive Director Sally Smith, J.D.  “AASB takes great pride in the progress we’ve made toward accomplishing our strategic goals and looks forward to continuing that success with these leaders guiding our association.”

The district directors, along with AASB’s officers, govern the association’s activities. Smith and state Board of Education liaison Dr. Cynthia McCarty serve as non-voting members of the AASB Board of Directors. Also serving as directors are District 3 Director James Rodgers of Covington County, District 4 Director Gwen Harris-Brooks of Lanett, District 5 Director Suzy Baker of the Alabama School of Fine Arts board, District 6 Director Kathy Landers of Talladega County, District 7 Director Earnestine Tucker of Tuscaloosa, District 8 Director Karen Duke of Decatur and District 9 Director David Vess of Madison County.

Pam Doyle

Doyle has been a member of the Muscle Shoals Board of Education since 2001. She has served as AASB vice president and as the AASB District 8 director. Doyle’s involvement in the association includes past chairmanships of AASB’s Resolutions, Budget and Finance, and Multicultural committees and a stint as vice chair of the Resolutions Committee. She has also achieved the Masters Honor Roll distinction in the AASB School Board Member Academy with more than 500 hours of training.

Doyle owns and operates Superior Print Solutions and is married to Gary. The couple has two children, Kimberly and Danielle, and six grandchildren.

James Woosley

Woosley has been serving as District 1 director since December 2012 and was appointed to the Satsuma school board in 2011. He has been heavily involved in the association, having served on the AASB Resolutions Committee, Innovation Committee and Academy Committee. He has completed the AASB School Board Member Academy and is a Master-level school board member. He has earned more than 165 training hours.

Woosley has also served on the Alabama Education Hall of Fame screening committee and the Legal Assistance Fund Board of Trustees. In District 1, he represented the Baldwin, Chickasaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe, Saraland, Satsuma and Washington county boards; Brewton and Thomasville boards; and the Alabama School of Math & Science board.

Woosley and his wife, Heather, live in Satsuma and have two children, Anna and Ian. He works as project management director at Mission Mercantile and has a degree in computer science from Creighton University.

Katy Smith Campbell

A member of the Macon County board since 2000, Campbell has been quite active in the association. Her many roles in the association include service as president, vice president and District 4 director. She is a member of the Legal Assistance Fund Board of Trustees and has chaired AASB’s Budget and Finance, Multicultural and Resolutions committees. She also has more than 500 academy hours which has earned her the Masters Honor Roll status.

Campbell is the founder and managing attorney at Katy Smith Campbell and Associates and a former partner in the law firm of Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders, Pettaway & Campbell LLC. She attended Tuskegee University and received her bachelor’s degree in biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She received her juris doctor degree from Jones School of Law while employed as hematology supervisor at East Alabama Medical Center.

Her community service is vast, as well. She has been on the State Children’s Policy Council, State Superintendent’s Advisory Committee and was Director and Founder of Amandala Chapter of Twenty First Century Youth Leadership Movement. She has also been president of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women-Macon County Chapter and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Alpha Xi Zeta Chapter. She has chaired the National Executive Board of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority. She and her husband, Omar, have five daughters and eight grandchildren. They reside in Tuskegee.

Shannon Cauley

Cauley has been president of the Baldwin County Board of Education and originally joined her school board in 2013. She has served on AASB’s Virtual Schools Committee and has undergone special training to assist with AASB’s Persogenics communication style assessment program.

In 2013, Cauley served on the Alabama Commission for Educator Preparation, Licensure and Entry into the Profession, commissioned by state Superintendent of Education Dr. Tommy Bice for the Alabama State Department of Education.

Volunteering has always been important to her, said Cauley. She began her service in 2004 as a parent volunteer at her children’s elementary school. She eventually served as vice president and president of their elementary and middle school PTA boards.  She is also a board member of the Spanish Fort Education Enrichment Foundation. Cauley and her husband, Mark, reside in Spanish Fort and have two children, Patrick and Grace, who both attend Spanish Fort High School in the Baldwin County school system.

Mike Oakley

As District 2 director, Oakley represents the school boards in Autauga, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw, Dallas, Lowndes, Marengo, Perry and Wilcox counties as well as the Demopolis, Linden and Selma boards.

Oakley has been actively involved in the association, having served on multiple committees, including the Multicultural Committee and Leader to Leader Committee (now called the Advocacy Committee).  He has also reached Level III of AASB’s School Board Member Academy and has earned 273 training hours.

In his community, Oakley is a familiar face.  He has served on the Bibb and Pickens county chambers of commerce, the local Kiwanis Club and the Bibb County Schools Foundation. He was a governor’s appointee to the State of Alabama Bicentennial Committee and has served for 17 years as the MC of National Veterans Day Birmingham.

Sgt. Maj. Oakley of the Alabama National Guard has been deployed three times – most recently to Kuwait – and has served more than 30 years in the military. He has a journalism/public relations degree and began his postsecondary education at Livingston University (now the University of West Alabama) and Wallace State Community College before finishing his degree at the University of Alabama. He has returned to the University of Alabama to pursue a master’s degree in organizational management.

Oakley and his wife, Sharon, reside in Centreville and have three children, Anna-Michael (Thomas) Oakley-Longshore, Trip and Pate. They have one grandson, Tommy. Oakley works in corporate relations at Alabama Power, a Southern Company.

The Alabama Association of School Boards represents all of the state’s public local school boards. Since 1949, AASB has served education leaders and the interests of local decision making in public education. The association’s mission is to develop excellent school board leaders through quality training, advocacy and services. The School Board Member Academy, founded in 1986, has four achievement levels based on the number of hours board members earn by attending training events.

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Newly installed AASB Officers and Directors (l-r): District 2 Director Mike Oakley of Bibb County, District 1 Director Shannon Cauley of Baldwin County, AASB President Pam Doyle of the Alabama School of Math and Science Board and AASB Vice President James Woosley of the Satsuma school board. Katy Smith Campbell of the Macon County school board (not pictured) is immediate past president. [PHOTO: DENISE L. BERKHALTER/AASB]