SPECIAL TO THE REPORTER

A former managing editor for the Shelby County Reporter has been elected

Alabama Press Association Journalism Foundation president.

Leada DeVaney Gore, who currently serves as publisher and editor of the Hartselle Enquirer, was chosen as Foundation president during the APA&8217;s 135th winter convention in Montgomery.

Reporter publisher Tim Prince was elected to serve on the Foundation&8217;s board of directors.

Gore is a 1992 graduate of the University of Montevallo.

She spent eight years at the Shelby County Reporter in Columbiana, first as a reporter and later as managing editor.

In 2000, she became president and publisher of the Hartselle Enquirer and the Madison County Record, both part of Boone Newspapers Inc.

Gore was named one of 1997&8217;s Top 40 Under 40 by the Birmingham Business Journal and is a graduate of Leadership Shelby County and Leadership Huntsville/Madison County.

She has served on the APA Journalism Foundation board for five years and also serves on APA&8217;s Better Newspaper Contest Committee.

Others chosen to serve on the Foundation&8217;s Board of

Directors were: Tommy Campbell, publisher and editor of The Choctaw Sun in Gilbertown; Jim Whittum, publisher of The Dothan Eagle; Melanie Dickinson, publisher of the Birmingham Business Journal; Faye McBride, publisher and editor of The Daily Sentinel in Scottsboro; and Eddie Dodd, publisher and editor of The Abbeville Herald.

Graham Hadley, managing editor of the Daily Home in Talladega, and Cy Wood, publisher and editor of the Valley Times-News in Lanett, were elected for a second two-year term.

Serving one more year of a two-year term on the Foundation board are Bob Martin, publisher and editor of The Montgomery Independent; Michele Gerlach, publisher of The Andalusia Star News; Tom Scarritt, editor of The Birmingham News; and Jerome Wassmann, publisher and editor of The Daily Mountain Eagle in Jasper