Audrey Boone Tillman is executive vice president, Corporate Services for Aflac Incorporated. Ms. Tillman is responsible for all aspects of human resource management for Aflac's more than 4,400 employees. She also oversees operations in the Fa cilities and Health Services divisions, as well as Corporate Services, Aflac's Corporate Learning division and the newly formed Environmental Coordination area.

During her tenure, Aflac has received multiple honors from Training magazine's Training Top 125, FORTUNE magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work for and Working Mother magazine's 100 Best Places for Working Mothers. Also, under her tenure, Aflac was recognized by Black Enterprise magazine as one of its Best Companies for Diversity in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Ms. Tillman is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the North Carolina State Bar and the Bar of the District of Columbia and is a past chair of the corporate law section of the National Bar Association. She serves as a director-at-large for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

February Speaker
Phyllis J. Holmen
Executive Director
Georgia Legal Services Program, Inc., Atlanta

Phyllis currently serves as Executive Director of Georgia Legal Services Program (GLSP), a position she has held since June 1990. GLSP is a non-profit law firm that provides free civil legal services to low-income Georgians who live outside the metro Atlanta area, through twelve locations throughout the state. Well over one million persons are potentially eligible for GLSP services. Phyllis began her legal career with GLSP following graduation from the University of Illinois College of Law.

She is a member of the Executive Committee of the State Bar of Georgia Board of Governors, and is active with several State Bar committees including the Advisory Committee on Legislation, the Access to Justice Committee, the Indigent Defense Committee, and the Individual Rights Section.

She is a member of the Advisory Council to the Supreme Court of Georgia 's Civil Justice Committee. She was a member of the Supreme Court of Georgia's Indigent Defense Commission and has served on the Governor's Judicial Nominating Commission, the Supreme Court's Blue Ribbon Commission on the Judiciary, and the Administrative Office of the Court's Committee on Pro Se Litigants. She is a member of the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers.

She was a member of the President's 2006 Task Force on Access to Civil Justice of the American Bar Association (ABA), and is a former member of the Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants (SCLAID) of the ABA .
She is a current or former member of many national and community boards and organizations, including the National Legal Aid and Defender Association; the National Senior Citizens Law Center ; the national Poverty and Race Research Action Council; CHRIS Homes , serving troubled children; Leadership Atlanta; and the ACLU of Georgia. She is a co-founder and long-term board member of the Women's Policy Group, which has advocated for progressive policies and legislation in the interests of Georgia 's women for over 18 years.

In March 2008, Phyllis received the Elbert Tuttle Jurisprudence Award from the Atlanta Anti-Defamation League. In February 2007 she received the "Lifetime Commitment to Public Service" Award from Emory Law School . In October 2006 she was honored as a Disinguished Alumna by the University of Illinois College of Law.

March Speaker
Laura Mathis
Director of Public Administration
Middle Georgia Regional Development Center, Macon

Laura Mathis is the Director of Public Administration for the Middle Georgia Regional Development Center in Macon. A native of Savannah , Ms. Mathis received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and French from Converse College in Spartanburg , South Carolina and a Master's Degree in Public Administration from University of Georgia . Ms. Mathis worked for the Macon Housing Authority from 1994 to 1999 before becoming the first County Manager of Wilkinson County , where she served until May 2007.

Ms. Mathis is a graduate of Leadership Macon 1999, Leadership Georgia 2002 and in 2007, Ms. Mathis was selected by Georgia Trend magazine as one of Georgia 's Top Forty Under Forty. She and her husband Kyle live in Perry.

April Speaker
Amelia Wilson
Chairman of the Board
The Peoples Bank, Eatonton
Trustee of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation

Amelia Wilson has worked at The Peoples Bank for 55 years, both part-time and full-time in every department, and is currently Chairman of the Board. After receiving a B.S. in Music Education from the University of Georgia , she taught music in Atlanta and Eatonton for 20 years. She has been instrumental in forming and leading organizations in Eatonton including Friends of the Library and the Putnam Co. Health Fair. She has served on the boards of Better Hometown Eatonton, the Putnam General Hospital , Madison Morgan Cultural Center , and the Macon Symphony Orchestra. She currently serves on Board of Trustees for the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation.

Mrs. Wilson served several terms as a Deacon at First Baptist Church , where she also served on the Budget Committee, and has been a member of the choir for 50 years. She has been married for 53 years and has two children and five grandchildren.