The City of Birmingham’s inaugural Small Business Council has been selected.

Twenty-two small business owners and supporters and start-up founders were named to the panel from 140 applications. They will serve two-year terms.

The council will act as an advisory group to Mayor Randall Woodfin and the city’s Department of Innovation and Economic Opportunity, with the panel meeting quarterly and recommending action in support of the city’s small business community.

The SBC will be led by Tene Dolphin, deputy director for the IEO’s office of Business Diversity and Opportunity. Green Acres was selected as the legacy business representative.

Woodfin said the council “will help expand what our small businesses, especially women-, minority- and disadvantaged businesses, are doing to help shape the quality of life right here in the Magic City.”

The council members are:

Abra Barnes, Barnes and Associates, Realtors

Bruce Lanier, MAKEbhm

Charles Williams, Charles Williams & Associates Inc.

Damian Carson, Operation HOPE Inc.

Darlene L. Wilson, Relay Accounting Management, a division of DC Finance Management, LLC

Greg Gratton, Green Acres {legacy business}

Isaac Cooper, IMC Financial Consulting, LLC

Jessica Moody, Create Birmingham

Jim Cavale, INFLCR Inc.

Kelsey L. Wright, K. LaMyra Consulting

Kerry Schrader, Mixtroz, LLC

Meredith Calhoun, Practice Works

Rylie Hightower, The Lumbar

Scott Pierce, Two Ravens

Selena Rodgers Dickerson, SARCOR, LLC

Talibah M. Bayles, TMB Tax & Financial Services, LLC

Tanesha Sims-Summers, Naughty But Nice Kettle Corn Co.

Thomas Walker Jr., S(w)ervice

Tracey Morant Adams, Renasant Bank

Valencia Wells, Morris Avenue Eyecare

Vincent J. Graffeo, Graffeo Law, LLC

Zebbie Carney, Eugene’s Hot Chicken