Glen Coffee:  

Life I am married and my wife's name is Debbie. We live on Dauphin Island, Alabama. I have two grown and married children. A son who is 32 years old and a policeman in Tuscaloosa and a 27-year old daughter that works for a national insurance company in Birmingham. My favorite pasttime activities include doing things with my wife, fishing, reading, gardening, traveling, watching college football, and doing small home improvement projects. I guess I am starting to sound like an old man. Following college, I accepted a job with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers where I spent my entire 32-year career based out of Mobile, Alabama. My initial work with the Corps involved conducting environmental evaluations of water resources development projects. I spent some time as a supervisor and eventually became a project manager where I worked on both domestic and foreign projects. I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to manage implementation of the largest wildlife mitigation project ever undertaken by the Corps to compensate for habitat losses resulting from constructionof the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. That project involved the creation of 10 new wildlife management areas involving over 180,000 acres of land in Mississippi and Alabama. In 1999, I received the "Wildlife Conservationist of the Year" award from the Governor of Alabama for my efforts on that project. Some of my most interesting projects while with the Corps were located in foreign countries. I served as the manager of the Corps' Guatemala Project Office where we assisted local communities recover from the devastating effects of Hurricane Mitch that killed over 15,000 people in Central America. I also worked in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama and Costa Rica in Latin America. In one of my last assignments with the Corps, I spent time in Iraq managing the re...Expand for more