Several new and returning members of the Alabama Association of School Boards Board of Directors were installed at the close of the 2020 AASB Annual Convention on Dec. 5 in Birmingham. 

Baldwin County school board member Shannon Cauley, who previously served as District 1 Director and as President-Elect, is now president of the 15-member AASB Board of Directors. She will serve a one-year term at the helm of an association that serves more than 800 school board members and 144 boards of education. Those school boards provide leadership that impacts the lives of nearly 750,000 schoolchildren. 

Cauley steps into the position most recently held by Lanett school board president Gwen Harris-Brooks, who will remain on the board as its Immediate Past President. 

Lauderdale County School Board President Ronnie Owens, who most recently served as AASB District 8 Director, was installed as President-Elect. 

AASB also welcomes Leslie Weaver-Martin of the Chickasaw school board to its Board of Directors as the new District 1 Director. AASB has nine districts representing geographical areas of the state. District 1 includes the Baldwin County, Brewton, Chickasaw, Clarke County, Conecuh County, Escambia County, Gulf Shores, Mobile County, Monroe County, Saraland, Satsuma, Thomasville and Washington County school boards as well as the Alabama School of Math & Science. 

Rev. Russell Clausell, president of the Geneva City school board, was installed as the new District 3 Director. He was elected by school boards in District 3 to replace Dr. Greg Price of Pike County, who served two terms, the maximum allowed under the AASB bylaws. District 3 includes the Andalusia, Barbour County, Coffee County, Covington County, Crenshaw County, Dale County, Daleville, Dothan, Elba, Enterprise, Eufaula, Geneva City, Geneva County, Henry County, Houston County, Opp, Ozark, Pike County and Troy school boards. 

AASB also welcomed back District 5 Director Renna Soles Scott of the Bessemer school board, District 7 Director Brad Ingle of the Walker County school board and District 9 Director Beth Wilder of the Huntsville school board. All were re-elected to serve second terms on the Board of Directors.