Background
Byram, Jim L. was born on July 4, 1948 in Fairfield, Alabama, United States. Son of Leonard Ernest and Virginia Beth Byram.
Byram, Jim L. was born on July 4, 1948 in Fairfield, Alabama, United States. Son of Leonard Ernest and Virginia Beth Byram.
Bachelor in Political Science, University Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1970. Master of Public Administration, Jacksonville (Alabama) State University, 1979.
Community resource officer, Community Development Department, Birmingham, Alabama, 1974-1976;
grants administrator, Community Development Department, Birmingham, Alabama, 1976-1983;
director economics and community development, City of Bessemer, Alabama, since 1983. Consultant on business, development and governmental affairs, 1970. Member of advisory committee Housing and Urban Development, Birmingham, since 1987.
Member Southern Industrial Development Council, Atlanta, 1990.
Board of directors Alabama Community Development Corporation, Birmingham, since 1984, Bessemer State Technology College Foundation, 1988-1991. Member of advisory board Bessemer Carraway Med.Ctr., 1988-1991. Member Alabama Economics Developers Association, Japan-American Society Alabama, Cherokee Fifty-Order of Arrow (lodge advisor 1976-1988), Rotary (president Bessemer 1988-1989, Rotarian of Year award 1989).
Married Mary Ann Beasley, November 21, 1973 (divorced January 1990). 1 child, Natalie Daye.