
Officers and Board of Directors
Executive Committee
President: Ruth Truss, University of Montevallo
Vice President: Richard Bailey, Montgomery
Secretary: Mark Wilson, Auburn University
Membership Secretary: Maiben Beard, Auburn University
Treasurer: Gayle Thomas, Abbeville
Immediate Past President: Jim Baggett, Birmingham Public Library
At-large Members: Debra Love, Susan Reynolds
Click here to read biographies of the first fifty presidents.
Board of Directors
2023 - 2026 Term
Amber Broadhead, Edgewood Elementary School
Blake Busbin, Alabama State Department of Education
Deidre Dees, Poarch Band of Creek Indians
Ashley Dumas, University of West Alabama
Hannah Garmon, City of Birmingham
Josephin Bolling McCall, Elmore Bolling Initiative
Anna Mullican, Oakville Indian Mounds
Shari Williams, Ridge Macon County Archaeology Project
2022 - 2025 Term
Emily Blejwas, Alabama Folklife Association
Dana Chandler, Tuskegee University Archives
Kerry Dunaway, Clarke County Historical Association
Linda Felton-Smith, Troy
Christopher Maloney, Encyclopedia of Alabama
Donna Manson, Montgomery
Susan Reynolds, Alabama Heritage
Graydon Rust, Alabama Humanities Alliance
2021 - 2024 Term
John Allison, Morgan County Archives
Annette Bradford, Jackson County Historical Association
Rhonda Davis, USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park
Ronald Fritze, Athens State University
Debra Love, Black Heritage Council
Laura Murray, Auburn
Marty Olliff, Troy University Dothan
Justin Rudder, Alabama Department of Archives and History
The Alabama Review
Matthew Downs, Editor
Michael Robinson, Book Review Editor
Newsletter
Mark Wilson, Auburn University
Parliamentarian/Counsel
Chriss Doss, Birmingham