Doug Smith is fond of saying “If you would tell me what you will do, tell me what you have done.” His career highlights include:
What Doug Smith accomplished for you:
- Serving on the senior staffs of two Congressmen, a U.S. Senator, two Governors, and as transition advisor for six Governors
- Served as President and Chairman of the Board of several corporations that built and managed 18 cable TV systems, 2 television stations and an AML system
- Commander in Headquarters Alabama National Guard
- Executive Officer Army Reserves
- Founded two Sunday School Classes at First United Methodist Church Montgomery and taught Sunday School for over thirty years
- Alabama’s Washington Liaison
- First Director of the Alabama Development Office (ADO)
- Governor’s Liaison to the Legislature
- Governor’s Recording Secretary (made over 5700 political appointments)
- Governor’s Alternate to the Appalachian Regional Commission
- Governor’s Administrative Assistant
- Past President of the Alabama Cable TV Association
- Former Board Advisor NCTA
- Past National President of the American Low Power TV Association
- Past President and Chairman, LSMAC, INC
- Past President of the General Partner of Satelink, Ltd.
- Past Officer and Board Member of Inland Broadcasting, Inc. and Eagle Inc.
- President College Class & Senior Member Honor Council Law School
- Past State Vice President Alabama Jaycees
What Doug Smith accomplished for you:
- Author of the Alabama Development Act and first Director of the Alabama Development Office (ADO) including what is now the Alabama Development of Economic Affairs (ADECA) that brings $1,225 Per Capita to Alabama each year. ADO has secured over 100,000 new jobs for Alabama by making it possible to recruit Mercedes Benz, Boeing, Hyundai, Toyota, Honda, and ThyssenKrupp
- Author of the Regional Planning and Development Act and started the Regional Planning and Development Commissions that developed most of our industrial parks, water and sewer systems, and highway network.
- Co-Author of the Constitutional Revision Act which made possible the Judicial Article that reformed and reorganized our Judicial Courts systems
- Started the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center
- Established the State’s Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System
- Consolidated the State Budget
- Advisor to the State Budget
- Set up the state computer management system
- Originated, organized, and raised the money for and set the system in place for the $200,000,000.00 (two-hundred million) Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB and its eight satellite co-operative clinics around the State of Alabama
- Started the Lister Hill Health Clinic (now called River Regions Health Center)
- Author of the U.S. Veterinary Medical Education Act that more than doubled the number of veterinary schools in the United States. The act protects the public’s food supply from contamination by salmonella, E. Coli, and similar dangers, and the act also built the new vet schools at Auburn and Tuskegee and increased their student capacities.
- Organized the Alabama Appalachian Regional Commission with its management system and highway network
- Headed the largest state reorganization since 1932-38