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                        Meet the Commissioners

Toby Aucoin

Work: 634-2020
aucoinlawfirmllc@gmail.com



Jim Hendrickson

Home: 634-7951   Cell: 504-952-0611

jlhendrickson@bellsouth.net



Michael Howell

Home: 634-5832

marshgibbon@hotmail.com



Gayle Macdiarmid
Home: 634-5898  

macdiarmidg@bellsouth.net

 


Clayton McDonald

Home: 634-7100

 jacksonyardman@bellsouth.net


Mary Ann Pittman Ridenour

Cell: 721-1521

fairlyoddmother@hotmail.com


Carneal Woodyear

Home: 634-2640   Cell: 235-0391

ecarneal@bellsouth.net

 Liaison to the Jackson Board of
 Trustees and legal advisor to
 the Commission, Toby joined
 the Commission in 2008. 
 Graduated from Nicholls State
 in Fine Arts and earned his law
 degree from Southern Univ.
 Law School. Currently restoring
 the Michael W. Hughes House (ca 1840). Elected to the Jackson Board of Trustees in 2008; president of the Feliciana Bar Association, Board member of the Food Bank.
  Commission Secretary and
  Restoration Planner. Retired
  Air Force officer and former
  Commandant of Cadets at
  LSU. Member of the
  Commission since 1994 when
  it was formed. He has partially
  restored six  buildings in
  Jackson. Frustrated architect, passable carpenter and draftsman       


  Member of the Commission
  since 1994 and a native of
  Jackson. Graduate of Ole
  Miss and the author of two
  books on local history,
  Feliciana Confederates
 
and Journey to War's Eve.
 
He is a meticulous craftsman
  and draftsman, and is restoring the Lockridge Cottage (ca 1820).




  Current Co-Chair of the
  Commission, Gayle returned
  to Jackson to restore Millwood
  (ca 1840) and joined the
  Commission in 2003. Graduate
  of LSU and owns and operates
  an interior design business.
  Member of the National Trust,
  Preservation Resource Center
of New  Orleans and the Jackson Assembly. 


  Commission member since
  2002, Clayton is a Commission
  Co-Chair. He and his wife, Cindi,
  have rehabilitated the Dr. J.W.
  Lea House (1917) and saved
  the   Brady House (ca 1827)
  for future restoration. Employed
  by the Georgia-Pacific paper mill
  as an assistant operator. 
 
                          
  Commission Vice-Chair and
  Chair of the Landscaping and
  Beautification Committee, Mary
  Ann joined the Commission in
  2008. A lifelong resident of
  Jackson,  she is restoring a
  1930s cottage and nursing a
  live oak back to health. She is
  an "opinionated proponent of the glories of  living in rural Louisiana,
particularly in Jackson and East Feliciana". 

     
 
  Commission Treasurer and
  member since 2003. Graduate
  of LSU in engineering and has
  extensive experience in large
  scale farming, construction
  and management. He
  returned to Jackson in 2002
  to restore Roseneath (ca 1832) and was elected to the  Board of Trustees in 2004. Married to the former Mary Acosta of Jackson.
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