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A
Camden native and a 1967 graduate of Auburn University,
Treasurer Ivey began her career as a high school teacher
before becoming an officer with Merchants National Bank
in Mobile. She
also served as an assistant hospital administrator as
well as assistant director of the Alabama Development
Office where she authored the “Prepared Cities”
Program, and the director of government affairs and
communications for the Alabama Commission on Higher
Education. Treasurer
Ivey also served as Reading Clerk for the Alabama House
of Representatives.
Throughout her career, Kay Ivey has continued her
education by completing two banking schools – the
Alabama
Banking
School
in
Mobile
and the
School
of
Bank Marketing
at the
University
of
Colorado
. In 1989
she completed the Governor’s Center for Public Policy
at
Duke
University
and she is a graduate of Leadership Alabama.
She also attended the week-long National Security Forum
at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery.
She is a member of the First Baptist Church of
Montgomery, the Montgomery Rotary Club, the Board of
Directors of the Montgomery YMCA, and the Tukabatchee
Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
Kay Ivey is also honored to be the first
Alabama
Girls
State
alumnus elected to an Alabama Constitutional Office.
She attended
Girls
State
in 1962, was elected Lieutenant Governor and represented
Alabama
at Girls Nation in
Washington
,
DC
. She has
remained involved with
Girls
State
for the past 35 years and is passionate about
encouraging young people to enter public service.
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