The personnel board shall be comprised of seven members consisting of the following persons: The Chair of the County Commission of Jefferson County; the mayor of the municipality having the greatest number of employees in the classified service; one member of the Jefferson County Mayors Association, an Alabama nonprofit corporation, not otherwise serving hereunder who is appointed by its governing body; two employees in the classified service, one of whom shall be African American not otherwise serving hereunder who shall be elected by popular vote of the permanent employees in the classified service from a list of nominations submitted to the director under the signatures of at least five employees in the classified service on or before September 30 of each year; and two persons appointed by the presiding Judge of Probate of Jefferson County, one of whom shall reside in the Bessemer judicial division and one of whom shall reside in the Birmingham judicial division, one of whom shall be African American and each of whom shall be qualified electors in the county, and neither of whom, nor any spouse or lineal descendant of a grandparent of such person or his or her spouse, shall be a current or former employee in the classified service or have held any public office of an appointing authority at any time. The term of office of each employee member of the personnel board shall be three years, except that notwithstanding the expiration of an employee member’s term of office, he or she shall continue to serve until such time as his or her successor has been elected. The term of office of each judicial appointee member of the personnel board shall be three years except that notwithstanding the expiration of a judicial appointee member’s term of office, he or she shall continue to serve until such time as his or her successor has been appointed. The board shall elect its chair from among the members and may create and fill such other of its offices as it may determine from time to time. The term of office of the chair shall be one year, and any chair or former chair shall be eligible for reelection to such office. The board shall meet once a month on dates to be fixed by its rules and regulations and as often as shall be necessary for the orderly conduct of its business.