The MAAP Certification Board is responsible for for processing applications for initial certification and recertification, as well as overseeing the maintenance of the Ethical Standards of Certified Professionals.

The Certification Board consists of ten members - three of whom serve one-year terms, three of whom serve two-year terms, and three of whom serve three-year terms - along with a Chair or Co-Chairs, who are appointed by the President of MAAP.

The President and Immediate Past-President of MAAP serve as ex-officio members of the Certification Board. 

Certification Board Members

• Michelle L. Dixon, ICADC-I, Chairperson - Digital Therapeutics/ Quit Genius, Pascagoula, MS

• Russell 'Lin' Hogan, PsyD. ICAADC, LPC, MAC, SAP, President  & ex-officio - Weems Community Mental Health Center, Meridian, MS

• Bernard Matherne, Jr., P-LPC, ACRPS, ICADC-II, Immediate Past-President & ex-officio - A Bridge to Recovery, Jackson, MS

• Katherine Lewis, ICADC-II, CCJA - The Estate at River Bend Residential Treatment Center, Lucedale, MS

• Brian Henrie, ICADC, CCJA - Harrison County Youth Court, Biloxi, MS

• Jackie Chatmon, ICADC-II - MS Department of Mental Health, Jackson, MS

• Sharon Johnson, ICAADC, ICCS - Adams County Board of Supervisors, Natchez, MS

• Dorothy Robertson, M.Ed., MAC, ICPM, CMHT- Life Help CMHC, Greenwood, MS

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• Member Emeritus:  Robert F. Tavlin, ICAADC - Retired,  Madison, MS

• Member Emeritus:  Albert Stallworth, Sr., M.Ed., ICAADC - Retired, Gautier, MS

• In Memoriam:  Katherine Turcotte, ICADC, ICCS - Co-founder of MAAP, Past President (of many terms), Member Emeritus of Board of Directors and Certification Board.  

• In Memoriam:  Shane Garrard, ICADC-II, ICCS - Instructor, Leader, and friend. Member Emeritus of Board of Directors and Certification Board.