Council Member Jennie Robinson

Jennie Robinson was elected to serve on the Huntsville City Council in 2014 after serving three terms on the Board of Education for Huntsville City Schools. She was re-elected to serve a second term on the Council in 2018 and was twice elected to serve as Council President. She is only the second woman to serve in that role.

Jennie received her doctorate from Purdue University and has over twenty years of leadership and governance consulting experience as the owner of a consulting company and as executive director of The ELM Foundation.

Jennie has also served on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Association of School Boards, the Alabama Association of Non Profits, VOICES for Alabama’s Children, United Way of Madison County, the Rotary Club of Greater Huntsville and Leadership Greater Huntsville.

She has served five times as a PTA president and is an honorary lifetime member of the Alabama PTA.

She received the Distinguished Leadership Award from Leadership Greater Huntsville and the Women Honoring Women Award from WEDC Foundation.

Jennie is married to Dr. Michael Robinson and they are the parents of five children. They are active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.