Officers and Board of Directors

Executive Committee

President: Laura Hill, Encyclopedia of Alabama
Vice President: Dan Puckett, Troy University

Secretary: Mark Wilson, Auburn University

Membership Secretary: Maiben Beard, Auburn University

Treasurer: Gayle Thomas, Abbeville

Immediate Past President: Matthew Downs, University of Mobile

At-large Members: Laura Anderson and Beth Hunter

Click here to read biographies of the first fifty presidents.

Board of Directors

2026 - 2029 Term

John Allison, Morgan County Archives

Alex Colvin, Alabama Department of Archives and History

John Giggie, University of Alabama

Veronica Henderson, State Black Archives, Research Center, and Museum, Alabama A&M University

Laura King, National Civil War Naval Museum, Alabama State Council on the Arts

Liz Olliff, Dothan

Thomas Reidy, Scottsboro Boys Museum

Pam Thompson, Hoover Historical Society

2025 - 2028 Term

Felisha Anderson, Baldwin County Archives & History

Laura Anderson, Alabama Humanities Alliance

Valerie Burnes, University of West Alabama

Joseph Lee, Black Heritage Council

Rebecca Minder, Alabama Heritage

Brian Murphy, Florence Arts and Museums

Jen Stewart, Madison, GA

Dorothy Walker, Montgomery, AL

2024 - 2027 Term

Haley Aaron, Alabama Department of Archives and History

Caity Bell, Landmarks of DeKalb County

Mike Bunn, History Blakeley State Park

Beth Hunter, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Theo Moore, Hiztorical Vision Productions

Howard Robinson, Alabama State University

Christine Sears, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Jarrod Smitherman, J.B. Pennington High School

The Alabama Review

Matthew Downs, Editor

Michael Robinson, Book Review Editor

Mark Wilson, Auburn University

Parliamentarian/Counsel

Chriss Doss, Birmingham