L’Tryce Slade named first woman leader of African-American Business Council

L’Tryce Slade named first woman leader of African-American Business Council

Birmingham Business Journal by Crystal Jarvis, Staff
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 2:48pm CST – Last Modified: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 2:53pm CST

L’Tryce Slade, managing partner of Slade Land Use Environmental & Transportation Planning LLC, was elected chair the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce’s African-American Business Council.

L’Tryce Slade, managing partner of Slade Land Use Environmental & Transportation Planning LLC, was elected chair the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce’s African-American Business Council.

She is the first black woman to spearhead the organization. Slade is replacing Kelly Construction CEO Robert Kelly.

Last year she was named one of the Birmingham Business Journal’s Eight People to Watch in 2008 because of her firm’s work to help revitalize some Western parts of Birmingham.

Slade, who started her firm in 2006, earned her bachelor’s, master’s and law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.