Cathy Crenshaw is president of Sloss Real Estate Company in
Birmingham, a commercial real-estate firm focused on urban development and revitalization. Her company, among other projects, developed Pepper Place and co-developed the HOPE VI mixed-use,
mixed-income project in downtown Birmingham. A graduate of Wofford College, she attended Harvard University in 2007 and 2008 as a Loeb Fellow and visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Design. Crenshaw serves on numerous local, state and national boards. She was named Birmingham Business Journal’s 2002 “Woman of the Year.”