United Security Bancshares Inc. announced that Robert Stephen Briggs, Sheri S. Cook, Aubrey S. Miller, and Donna D. Smith were elected as directors of United Security Bancshares Inc. and its subsidiary, First United Security Bank, by the Board of Directors of the Company at a meeting held on October 31, 2014. Mr. Briggs was appointed to serve on the Audit Committee of the Company and the Bank. Ms. Cook was appointed to serve on the Asset/Liability Committee of the Bank, Mr. Miller on the Retail, Operations, Technology, and Compliance Committee of the Bank, and Ms. Smith on the Directors' Loan Committee of the Bank.

Robert Stephen Briggs has over 40 years of experience in the insurance industry, serving as a field agent, general manager and company executive. In 2008, after his retirement from Protective Life Corporation, Mr. Briggs founded Petra Life Services Inc. in Birmingham, which company provides insurance, financial and investment consulting services, and he currently serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Sheri S. Cook from April 2008 to July 2013, Sheri served as Altec's Director of Corporate Finance.

Previously, she worked in the corporate finance, internal audit, and investor relations departments of Protective Life Corporation, and also for Kinetic Partners, LLC and Sonat Inc. Since 2009, Mr. Miller has served as President of the Shelby County Board of Education. Donna D. Smith also served on the Board of the Alabama Power Company Foundation. Among her civic and professional activities, Donna was named a 2013 Top Human Resources Executive by the Birmingham Business Journal and serves as the first board president of the Girl Scouts of North Central Alabama Council.