Kidwell, Judith F.

Judith Kidwell has 16 years of experience in institutional advancement as a consultant and as a university administrator. She earned a B.A. in history from Mt. St. Mary’s University in Maryland and the M.S. degree in organizational management from Cumberland University in Tennessee. After a career in banking, she was an associate for a fundraising counsel firm in Nashville, where she gained experience in developing fundraising plans and strategies, researching funding sources, and preparing grant applications and proposals for a variety of clients. She spent 10 years in the Office of Institutional Advancement at Cumberland University, where she managed internal and external communications and was responsible for the research, cultivation and solicitation of foundation and government grants and for grants administration. She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Bluegrass Chapter. Judith joined Global Advancement in 2009.