Meet the GMA Board
GMA 2023-24 Officers and Board of Directors
None of the work we do every day would be possible without the hard work and dedication of our officers and board of directors.
Officers
- Seth Spurlock, BCS
President - Jason Maxwell, KaMin
1st Vice President - Eric Tillirson, Thiele Kaolin Company
2nd Vice President
- Tammy Brack, IMERYS Performance Minerals NA
Treasurer - Lee Lemke, Georgia Mining Association
Secretary
Board of Directors
- Don Abernathy, New Riverside Ochre Company
- Jeremy Andrews, Burgess Pigment Company
- Jeff Avant, Atlanta Sand
- Chris Burns, Yancey Bros. Co.
- David Girouard, CARBO Ceramics
- Austin Gilmore, Cemex, Inc.
- Scot Graddick, IMERYS RAC
- Mike Hohn, Huber Specialty Minerals
- JD Hollingsworth, Oil Dri Corporation
- Lauren Lanter, B&D Industrial
- Sam Martinez, Burgess Pigment Company
- Mike Nelson, KaMin
- Mike Peavy, Cherokee Brick & Tile Company
- David Peppers, IMERYS RAC
- DeVaughn Pettit, Tractor & Equipment Company
- Jim Renner, Chemours
- Rader Sellers, Sellers Construction Company
- Chuck Pettit, Active Minerals International
- Trey Sheppard, Howard Sheppard Inc.
- Ted Smith, Arcilla Mining & Land Company
- Ben Tarbutton, Sandersville Railroad Company
- Charles Tarbutton, B-H Transfer Company
- Kris Towers, BASF
- Jeremy Walters, Thiele Kaolin Company
- Wesley Walthall, Walthall Oil Company
- Chad Wilkinson, General Shale Brick