United Security Bancshares Inc. announced that A. J. "Lonnie" Strickland, III was elected as a Director of United Security Bancshares Inc. and its subsidiary, First United Security Bank, by the Board of Directors at a meeting held on February 28, 2013. Dr. Strickland was also appointed to serve on the Audit Committee of the company and the Bank and on the Asset/Liability Committee of the Bank. Dr. Strickland is the John R. Miller Professor of Strategic Management in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Alabama, a position he has held since 1969.

He is also a director of American Equity Investment Life Holding Company and Twenty Services Inc., and a former director of Statesman.