Retired Jefferson County Circuit Judge Caryl Privett, nominated for President, grew up at IPC where she was confirmed on Maundy Thursday in 1961. She is an ordained Ruling Elder and Deacon and has served on the Session, the Deacon Board and a number of committees including Music, Fine Arts, Governance, and is currently on the Worship Team. She served one term on the Board of Kirkwood by the River. She has served as a Confirmand Partner and was one of the drafters of the IPC By-laws and one of the stitchers of IPC's needlepoint paraments. She serves the Presbytery of Sheppards and Lapsley as a member of the Commission on Ministries. During her years practicing law, she was a civil rights lawyer, an Assistant U.S. Attorney, the first female U. S. Attorney in Alabama, a mediator, a municipal prosecutor and an adjunct law professor. She is a proud aunt, greataunt and Godmother, and a devoted follower of Vanderbilt University baseball. One of her favorite places is the IPC Labyrinth.
Tommy Thomson, nominated for Vice President, and his wife Kathy and were married at IPC in 1993, and have been active members at IPC since moving back to Birmingham in 1998. He is a physician and on the clinical faculty at UAB in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Tommy currently serves on the IPC Session and chairs the Global Missions Committee. He has a passion for missions and has been on many mission journeys to Africa and Mexico with the church. Tommy served two terms on the Deacon board and volunteered with the youth program and Boy Scout Troop 28 as he and Kathy’s children were growing up. Their daughter Ellie is married and lives in New York, where she is in graduate school at Columbia University. Their son Mac is in medical school at the University of South Carolina. Carl Albright (Elder) is married to Paige Albright. They have three sons, Carl (22), David (20) and Bibb (19). He has been a member of IPC since 1999 and has served as Moderator of the Board of Deacons. After a 26-year banking career, he recently retired and is working as a business consultant. Spencer Cobbs (Youth Elder) is an 11th grade student at Mountain Brook High School. She is on the Youth Grant Team and loves coming to youth group. She works at Crestline Pharmacy. Spencer is thrilled to be a Youth Elder next year! Anna Hartzog (Elder) has been a member of IPC for 5 years. She is married to Kent and has two sons, Owen (7) and Emmett (3). She enjoys heading up the Bridges Sunday school class and being a deacon. Outside of church, she is an editorial director at Hoffman Media and enjoys spending time with family and friends. She likes running, traveling, hosting parties, reading far too many books, and drinking hot cups of coffee. Andrew Hicks (Elder) was born in Birmingham and grew up in Mountain Brook. He attended Auburn University, graduating with a degree in Architecture. At IPC, he is part of the third generation of his family to enjoy participating in the life of this congregation. He has been a long-time member of the IPC Choir and has served as both Deacon and Elder in the past. He has also participated in the IPC hiking group in recent years, leading hikes at DeSoto State Park and Little River Canyon. As an architect with ArchitectureWorks, LLP, he has worked with the church during the Sanctuary renovation, to prepare for the new Dobson pipe organ, and participated in the teams that developed both the Labyrinth and Prayer Garden, as well as the new expansion of the Columbarium. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, a LEED accredited professional with the U.S. Green Building 1 Council, and a member of the City of Mountain Brook Landscape Committee.