Member Highlight – Agent: D. Spencer Huey
Spencer is currently serving as the inaugural president of the LTAAL. He was born and raised in Birmingham and is a second-generation title insurance professional. Spencer got his start as a courier for a title company at age 16 and worked part-time and summers through college. He also received a firefighter and technical rescue certification from the State of Tennessee and was a resident firefighter with the Tri-community Volunteer Fire Department outside of Chattanooga, TN while attending college. Spencer graduated from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee with a B.S. in Business administration. After crossing the stage and accepting his diploma on Sunday, May 2, 1993, he was with his dad, Don, on Monday, May 3 helping to get Magic City Title, Inc. started.
Besides devoting the last 30 years to Magic City Title and the title industry, Spencer is very active with his local church by serving as the Finance Chairperson for the last 10 years and as either deacon or head deacon for the last 30 years. He has also served as a school board member and treasurer of Hoover Christian School.
Spencer has three children. Merritt, who will be getting married in May of this year, graduated from Belmont University with a degree in Business Administration and is employed in Birmingham. His son Mason loves to Bass fish and his youngest daughter Morgan is currently a Junior at Auburn University. Since this is a new association, some may be wondering what the function of or the need of the association is or will be. To that end, Spencer offers this response:
Due to technology, the title industry in Alabama has changed from local competition to national competition. Advances in technology simplify our daily lives and increase our knowledge by giving us tremendous amounts of data at our fingertips. These advances, while helping us, can also work against local businesses by making it much easier for national companies to compete in our market. Even with brick-and-mortar laws in place the increased competition from title companies around the country has made an association for Alabama title agents and professionals a must. One function of this association will be to act as a voice for Alabama title professionals to preserve and grow the industry at a state and local level. To ensure that this voice is heard, a strong and active membership is necessary. If you are in the title business, whether as an abstractor, agent, underwriter, or an associate who relies on providing services to the title business for their livelihood, I encourage you to become a member today.
