A native of Montgomery, Kimberlin Love received her bachelor’s degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C., majoring in broadcast communications. After graduation, she worked in D.C. for America’s Promise, the Alliance for Youth communications department, and served as a deputy press secretary in the White House. Love returned to Montgomery five years ago to serve as Practice Administrator for River Region Dermatology and Laser. She is a member of the board for Leadership Montgomery, the Junior League of Montgomery, and serves as vice president of the board for Aid to Inmate Mothers. Through the Junior League, Love assisted with Meals on Wheels, helped Brantwood Center repurpose a multicultural room for young residents, and helped with the addition of a sensory center at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art.

With a lifetime of dedicated work, state and national accomplishments and numerous accolades to her name, Judith M. Gilliam is a leader in advancing the mission of disability inclusion and independence, especially for Alabama citizens who are deaf. For 55 years, she worked with the Alabama School for the Deaf: as a classroom teacher, instructional leader, mentor, and ultimately a director. Although she is now retired, she continues to serve as a certified deaf interpreter and rater for the Commission on Collegiate Interpreter Education in D.C., where she also served as its Commissioner from 2012-2014.

As a person who is deaf and who primarily uses American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate, she finds strength in her personal experience to connect, relate, advocate, and serve as a mentor for those in the deaf community in need of services and support systems. She stays very involved with organizations and community partners, serving as a member of the Vocational Rehabilitation Service Advisory Council, member of the Alabama School for the Deaf Advisory Council, and chair of the Alabama Licensure Board for Interpreters and Transliterators.

Kevin Kidd was first introduced to ADRS when he was 16 as a student at Crossville High School. After graduating in 1992 from the University of Alabama, Kidd worked with the Darden Rehabilitation Foundation until 1998 when he joined the Alabama Department of Labor (once known as the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations), and he currently serves as the State of Alabama Department of Labor Program Services Manager for the Alabama Career Center System. He has served two terms on the Darden Rehabilitation Foundation Board.

Kidd was awarded the “Professional of the Year Award” from the Marshall County Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities in 2003, and its “Rising Star Award in 2000. He was part of the team that won the Alabama Governor’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities state “Collaboration Award” in 2015, and was recognized by the Greater Etowah Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities with a certificate of appreciation from Gov. Bob Riley in 2005. Kidd is a member of the Marshall County Manufacturer’s Association Team and ex officio with the North Alabama Workforce Development Board. He is also a member of the North Alabama Works WIOA (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act) board, the Marshall County Human Resources Management group, the DeKalb County Human Resources group, and the Albertville Chamber of Commerce.

Kidd represents both industry and a person with a disability on the Board.

Charles Wilkinson, a respected member of the Birmingham business community, has extensive experience as a human resource professional and consultant, which gives him valuable insight into the issues related to workers with disabilities.

Wilkinson, the father of a 10-year-old daughter named Bergen with Down syndrome, has been a vocal and tireless advocate for workers with disabilities. In 1990 as a vice president of Colonial BancGroup, he worked with ADRS to implement the requirements of the newly enacted Americans with Disabilities Act.

Wilkinson serves as the current chairman of the Alabama Business Leadership Network (ABLN), a group that links Alabama businesses committed to disability issues. Through ABLN, he collaborates with other Alabama business leaders to provide resources, information links, and qualified job candidates to employers throughout the state. He is actively involved in the United States Business Leadership Network, which connects him with business leaders from around the country.

The University of Alabama graduate earned a bachelor of science in commerce and business administration-human resource management and is a member of the North Alabama Society for Human Resource Management and the national Society for Human Resource Management. He is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources and a Senior Certified Professional.