CACC Names Academic Leader

Coastal Alabama Community College (CACC) of Bay Minette has named Dr. Lee Conerly as its new dean of academic instruction. Conerly brings more than two decades of higher education and secondary education experience to the role and has served as CACC’s associate dean of academic instruction since 2020. In her former role, she provided continual guidance to academic faculty, including overseeing onboarding programming for new faculty. She also led a veterans’ support initiative, which celebrated veteran students while supporting them as college students. Conerly also has served as a reviewer for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. She is a recipient of the Alabama Community College System Award of Excellence as Administrator of the Year (2022), CACC Academic Faculty of the Year (2018) and Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Distinguished Administrator Award (2024). She was also inducted into the PTK Alumni Hall of Honor in 2024.