Alabama Board of Education, Place 7

Party: Republican

Residence: Florence

Political experience: Longtime Republican activist. Has served as chairman of the Lauderdale County Republican Party and on the State Republican Executive Committee. First run for public office.

Professional experience: Ear, nose and throat doctor who was board certified in 1984 and has practiced medicine in the Shoals area for more than 30 years.

Civic experience: Shoals Christian School board of trustees member, 2001-2016; University of North Alabama board of trustees member, 1994-2006; multiple trips to Peru and trips to Nicaragua, Honduras, and South Korea on medical assistance programs and surgery missions.

Education: Bachelor’s, University of North Alabama, 1975; doctor of medicine, University of South Alabama, 1979; interned at Carraway Methodist Medical Center; 1979-1980; residency at the University of Tennessee Department of Otolaryngology in Memphis, 1980-1983.

Main issues: Platform includes school choice, the elimination of common core standards and federal education mandates and a reduction in red tape; proposes to expand dual-enrollment and Advanced Placement options in high schools, eliminate “woke” ideology from curricula and put “parents back in the driver’s seat with their children’s education.”