Stacy Cantrell presently serves as the Vice President of Engineering at Huntsville Utilities, where her team supports regional development by designing water, gas, and electric utility infrastructure for both immediate and long-term needs for the residents of Madison County.

She attended North Carolina State University to earn a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1988.  After graduation she worked at Florida Power and Light in south Florida for 7 years where she held various positions in district level engineering services,  division level planning, and corporate level reliability.   During this time Stacy was involved in her first significant storm duty after Hurricane Andrew destroyed much of south Florida in 1992 and earned her Master of Science in Engineering Management from the University of South Florida in 1994.

Relocating to Huntsville Alabama in 1995, Stacy began her career with Huntsville Utilities as an Electrical Engineer.  She has worked various positions in engineering, operations, and the dispatch center.  Stacy helped manage the restoration efforts after the April 2011 tornados and has helped guide Huntsville Utilities through major fundamental changes including implementation of the infrastructure design and mapping system, work order accounting system, fiber communications build,  intelligent metering, merging the water, gas, and electric engineering departments, and a city-wide fiber network build. 

Stacy is a graduate of Diversity Leadership Colloquium Cohort VII  and of the Leadership Greater Huntsville’s flagship program L-32.