Chandra Brown Stewart, executive director of Lifelines Counseling Services, holds a master’s degree in community counseling from the University of South Alabama. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology/Pre-Med from Xavier University in New Orleans.
Brown Stewart is a member of the Leadership Mobile Class of 2001; a past board member of Victory Health Partners, the Mobile Civic Center Advisory Board, Prevent Child Abuse Alabama Board, Mobile United and the Friends of the African-American Heritage Trail; and a general member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
In 2010, Mobile Bay Monthly named Brown Stewart one of their “40 Under 40 - Mobile’s Best and Brightest.” She received the Women of Achievement Rising Star Award from the YWCA and the Community Awareness Award from the Mobile Press Club. In 2002, she was a torch bearer for the Winter Olympics. She joined the Junior League of Mobile in 2001 and is a past president of the organization.
Brown Stewart is married to Leonard Stewart Jr. They are members of St. Mary Parish, where she served on the parish council in 2011 and was lector from 2007-2011.