District 3C.J. Small

C. J. Small is the President of the Mobile City Council and is a native and resident of Mobile, AL. He is 1997 graduate of John S. Shaw High School and an active and dedicated member of the Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church, where he serves as a Church Trustee, Sunday School Musician and Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Teachers. He received his Associates degree in Funeral Services from Gupton-Jones College in Atlanta, GA in 2000 and a Bachelor's degree in Human Resources from Faulkner University in Montgomery, AL in 2008.

He is the owner of Small's Mortuary & Cremations Services, serving the Alabama Gulf Coast with locations in Mobile, Theodore and Fairhope, AL. He is a member of the Alabama Funeral Director & Morticians Association where he is the District 1 Representative, a member of the National Funeral Directors & Morticians Association, serves as Secretary of the Epsilon Nu Delta Mortuary Fraternity, a member of the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, serves on the Board of Directors for Mobile Civic Center, City of Mobile Citizen's Budget & Finance Advisory Committee and Oakdale Community Service Club. He is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., where he was named 2011 'Kappa Man of the Year', a member of 100 Black Men of Greater Mobile and a member of the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association where he was also King of the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association in 2008. He is the Chaplain of the MLK Adult Mardi Gras Association, a Partner in Education with the Mobile Public School System and sponsors one of the largest toy drives in the City of Mobile during the Christmas holidays for less fortunate children.