FLORENCE-Alabama Humanities Foundation has elected its new chair and three new members to its board of directors. The Alabama Humanities Foundation is the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. AHF encourages and promotes appreciation of literature, history, law, philosophy and the arts through programs, events and grants to help others discover and share the meanings of life found through the humanities.
Nancy Sanford
Shoals native Nancy Sanford, executive director of the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library has been elected to chair the board for Alabama Humanities Foundation.
“I am proud to be serving as chair of AHF,” said Sanford. “I have been working with the organization for a number of years — on the board and through its programs that benefit the library and so many other organizations throughout the state with which I am involved. This is truly an honor for me.”
Sanford joined the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library in 2004 as executive director after more than 25 years of experience in public education, higher education, marketing and public relations as well as in a variety of cultural, nonprofit and community development and involvement activities.
She is a graduate of Leadership Shoals and Leadership Alabama, a member of the SunTrust Bank Board of Directors, past president of the Sheffield Rotary Club and a Paul Harris Fellow. She was named Sheffield Citizen of the Year in 1993.
Her community service has included working with the Tennessee Valley Art Center, the Music Preservation Society, United Way of the Shoals, the YMCA of the Shoals, Sheffield Education Foundation, University of North Alabama Alumni Association, the Shoals Branch of the Association of University Women, and the Inter Faith Council of the Shoals.
She is married to Ian Sanford, who is serving his fourth term as mayor of the city of Sheffield, and they have two children. Daughter Julia, a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Texas, is working in Birmingham, and son Tabb, a graduate of the University of North Alabama, also is working in Birmingham.
The other members elected to serve are Edgar Welden, chairman of Alabama Sports Hall of Fame; Ann Florie, executive director of Leadership Birmingham; and Sally Greenhaw, retired Montgomery County circuit judge.
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