Ms. Mary Lee Rice currently serves as City Council President Pro Tempore, chairs the Annexation Committee, serves as a member of the Financial Advisory Committee, and is council liaison to the Library Board. Mary Lee and her husband, Pete Yonce, have one child, Nathaniel. “Nat” attends Vestavia Hills High School.

Mary Lee has twenty-six years of experience in public finance and has served on the mayor’s Financial Advisory Committee since 2000 and was the city’s Interim Director of Finance in the summer of 2003. She has been a member of the mayor’s Human Resources and Risk Management Committee and is a member of the Vestavia Hills Chamber of Commerce and a board member of the Vestavia Hills City Schools Foundation.

Ms. Rice has also served the community-at-large as Board Chair of the Literacy Council of Central Alabama, Board Chair of Glenwood, Inc., Executive Board Member of Birmingham Healthcare for the Homeless, Treasurer of the Alabama Zoological Society, and President of the UAB Faculty/Staff Benevolent Fund. Ms. Rice currently serves as Treasurer of the Music Opportunity Program Foundation and is on the Endowment Committee of the Literacy Council.