• Military One Coast announces 2025 Board and Chair, DeAnn Alewine

    Military One Coast is pleased to announce DeAnn Alewine as the 2025 Military One Coast Chair.

    DeAnn Alewine is a Community Development and Marketing Liaison with Oceans Healthcare Biloxi. She has been an active member of the chamber for many years. She has served on the Membership Drive Committee and most currently the Military One Coast Board. She is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a BS in Public Relations and a double Minor in Marketing and Business. She has extensive experience and proven record of success in Sales, Marketing and Business Development.

    She has served on several nonprofit boards through the years and is currently on the Make-A-Wish of South Mississippi executive board. DeAnn and her husband Wayne live in Gulfport and have three children and two precious grandchildren. They are active members of First Baptist Church Gulfport. She enjoys traveling, being on a beach somewhere, playing pickleball and spending time with family and friends when not working or volunteering.

    DeAnn grew up with her father in the Air Force and was even born in Japan. She has a strong understanding of the Military and looks forward to serving as Military One Coast Chair 2025.   
     
    2025 Military One Coast Board of Directors
     

    DeAnn Alewine - Chair - Oceans Behavioral Hospital Biloxi 
    April Sanderson - Chair Elect - Independent Contractor
    Nell Schmidt - Past Chair - Keesler Federal Credit Union
    Elliott Voivedich - Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
    Marcia Crawford - Retired
    David Blackwell - Biloxi Shuckers
    Jeffery Isabell - Work for Warriors Mississippi
    Katie Ellis-Parker - Ace Data Storage, Inc.
    Perry Sinclair, Jr. - United States Air Force
    Samantha Bignell - Keesler Federal Credit Union
    Jovi Prevot - Naval Construction Battalion Center
    Arrea'l Bishop - City of Biloxi
    Jakavious Pickett - Ingalls Shipbuilding
     
    For more information regarding the 2025 Military One Coast Board of Directors, visit mscoastchamber.com or call 228-604-0014.