Nancy, a retired public school teacher-- working with a cross section of diverse cultural, demographic groups--joined the Sierra Club as a young mother in 1980. While drawn to the outings and activism of her local Shoals Group (AL), she worked for expansion of the Sipsey Wilderness, fought local tar sand mining operations, attended many Tennessee Valley Authority public scoping and board meetings, and advocated for many various environmental causes, spanning 4 decades. Nancy has and still serves on several environmental non-profit boards, including her roles as a founding member and officer, creating budgets and managing finances, fundraising, organizing public events and symposia, and more. Nancy has been quoted often in local and regional media as well as nationally, such as with the Union of Concerned Scientists. Her decades-long experience provides her with the understanding and knowledge of board-member responsibilities and operations which are needed to best serve on the Sierra Club Board of Directors.

Chapter Leadership Roles:

• Nancy was recently elected as the Alabama Chapter Chair 

• She is in her 4th term as an at-large member of the Alabama Chapter Executive Committee (ExCom)

• She serves as Chair of the Chapter Conservation Committee, serves on the Chapter’s Finance Committee and chaired the Nominating and Elections Committees for two years. 

National Leadership Roles:

• She is serving her third, two-year term on the Sierra Club’s Council of Club Leaders (CCL) ExCom 

• She is in her 3rd year as the CCL Resolutions Committee Co-chair. 

• She serves on the Sierra Club’s national Wastewater Residuals, Nuclear-Free and PFAS CORE Teams, securing a Sierra Club grant to facilitate PFAS sampling of surface waters across her state. 

• In 2022 and 2023, Nancy served on a national Sierra Club Conservation Policy Committee task force, regarding agricultural methane emissions.

Nancy hears the many concerns of chapter delegates from across the nation and strives to do all she can to amplify their voices. She supports a healthy working relationship among volunteers and staff and also is an advocate for prompt communications, transparency, equity, respect and democratic processes in all transactions. Nancy strives to promote civility and integrity in her interactions with her colleagues which she sees as critical in order for the club to operate as a well-oiled machine--only together, with all entities acting as a team, can the Sierra Club reach its full potential and achieve goals of the 2030 Strategic Framework.