A native of Limestone County, Alabama, Brenda Tuck & her husband Shane moved to Selma/Dallas County, Alabama in 1995.

With a background in management, Brenda became Office Manager for the American Cancer Society (ACS) in Selma where she worked with patients, other agencies, and volunteers supporting fund-raising and health initiative programs for an eight-county area. With the ACS Selma Office consolidating with Montgomery, she accepted a position in Marketing with Selma’s American Candy Company.

Brenda’s economic development career began in January of 2000 when Brenda joined Pioneer Electric Cooperative as Office Manager at the Innovation Centre, joining George Alford, Jr., as their economic development team working in Butler, Lowndes, Wilcox and Dallas counties. Training under Alford, Brenda became proficient in Economic Development negotiations, contracts, and grants while assisting a wide variety of entrepreneurial tenants with all facets of everyday business. 

In 2005, Brenda and George formed Alford and Associates, LLC to ensure that Economic Development activities continued in Pioneer’s four-county region that included South Dallas Industrial Park and at The Innovation Centre, while expanding their scope of work and territory.

In 2012, Brenda was recruited to the position of Executive Director of the Marengo County EDA in Linden, where she remained until moving to the Alabama Department of Commerce under AIDT in 2016 and then assuming her current role as the State’s first RurAL Development Manager in 2019 within the Business Development Division, currently serving 44 Rural counties (those with a population under 60,000).

Brenda holds an Associate in Science from Wallace Selma and Bachelor in Business Administration from Faulkner University. Through the Prince Khaled Fellowship from Auburn University Montgomery, in conjunction with Maxwell Air Force Base, she holds a Master of International Relations degree.

Brenda has worked with various local, state, and federal volunteer programs, including serving with Shane as Alabama Goodwill Ambassadors to International Officers through Maxwell Air Force Base.

Brenda specifically served as a volunteer for the State Department (Washington, DC / Huntsville, AL) through the International Volunteer Leadership Program, hosting delegations from around the world, educating them on the history of Selma, and our humanitarian, economic, and civil assets and opportunities.

Kathy King is a native of Dallas County, AL. She is a graduate of Dallas County High School in Plantersville, AL. After graduating Ms. King pursued a career in healthcare, graduating from Capps College, Montgomery, AL as a Medical Assistant. She later received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Virginia College, then a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix.

She has worked in the medical field in Selma and Centreville, AL. In 2013, Ms. King joined the Centre for Commerce, as an Administrative Assistant. In 2022, she was promoted to Project Manager for the Economic Development Authority.

In her free time, she enjoys spending time with family, reading, and doing DIY projects around the house.