Ralph Cobb

President

Ralph was elected to the Villas Board of Directors in 2016. He has lived at The Villas since 2012. Served as Fire Chief of the City of Madison for 16 years, retired in October 2016. He plays with the Madison Community Band, and sings with Southern Splendor Barbershop Chorus in Athens. Since retiring he does some substitute teaching for Bob Jones High School, James Clemons High School and Liberty Middle School.

Bette McClure

Vice President

Bette was appointed to the Board in October 2007 to fill the remaining year of an unexpired term. In 2008, she was elected to a three year term on the Villas Board.
She was born in Harriman, Tennessee and is a 1960 graduate of The University of  Tennessee. She was married that year to Don McClure, also a UT graduate. They first lived in Chattanooga where Bette taught fourth grade for one year.  They then were transferred to St. Joseph, Missouri with Don's job, where she taught first grade for a year.  After three years and the birth of two daughters, they moved to Chicago for two years.  Next was a twelve year stay in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, followed by fifteen years in Jackson, Tennessee.  During those years, she was a substitute teacher, worked in a flower shop, and with The Literacy Mission Volunteers in Jackson.
She spent most of her time with various volunteer jobs related to schools and community service. When her husband retired in 1993, they moved to Estill Springs, Tennessee.  She was widowed in 1998 and moved to The Villas in March of 2003 to be near her daughter and her family.

Ed Gaines

Secretary

R.E.(Ed) Gaines is a retired Civil Engineer. He and wife Ruth moved to Madison in 1984 after the TVA relocated the Engineering Support Projects to the Nuclear Plant sites, in this case, Brown's Ferry NP.

They lived in Stone Ridge, which is located on Hughes Road across from Discovery Middle School. He retired from the TVA in 1996 and he and Ruth have enjoyed traveling, projects around the house, and helping their two daughters, Mary Beth, who lives here in Huntsville
Leah, who lives in Baton Rouge.

They are members of Asbury Methodist Church. Ed and Ruth moved to the Villas in 2011 and live at 1064 Cathedral Circle.

David Frederick

Treasurer

David was elected to the Villas Board of Directors in 2016.

Al Renz

Member at Large

Al was elected to the Villas Board of Directors in 2008. He has lived in the Huntsville area since 1993 and purchased a condo in Phase II of the Villas at Madison when it was built in 2005. He served as Treasurer of the Phase II Board of Directors until the merger with Phase I in 2007.

Al is a native of St. Louis, Missouri where he attended Washington University and received an engineering degree. After serving 28 months in the U.S. Coast Guard, he returned to Washington University where he received his Master Degree in Management and taught for eleven years.

His career includes positions as Vice President and Treasurer of Computmatix Inc., President of BRF Resources, Inc. President and CEO of National Petroleum Corp. and Director of Business Management with The Boeing Corporation. After retiring from Boeing, he also taught for three years at University Alabama Huntsville.

His wife is Marlene, also a native of St. Louis. They have two sons who work for Exxon and Boeing, and  a  daughter who works for the U.S. Corp of Engineers. They have six grandchildren and will be married 52 years on November 29. 2009.