Jenifer Kimbrough serves as Chief Financial Officer at Oakworth Capital Bank. She has over 20 years of financial services experience, including serving banking, broker/dealer, and insurance clients with Ernst & Young, serving as the director of investor relations at Regions Financial Corporation, and serving on the Board of Directors and as chair of the Audit Committee for a publicly traded insurance company. Additionally, she has significant experience as head of internal audit and regulatory compliance for a publicly traded healthcare company.

She has served as the national president of the American Woman's Society of CPAs and on the AICPA's Women's Initiatives Executive Committee in the past and is a graduate of Momentum. She has served in numerous volunteer leadership positions, including with the Junior League of Birmingham, Brookwood Forest Elementary and Mountain Brook Schools PTO Councils, and Canterbury United Methodist Church. She serves on the University of Alabama Culverhouse Board of Visitors and on the Professional Advisory Board for the School of Accountancy.

Mrs. Kimbrough and her husband, William, have two children in the Mountain Brook school system.

Email: kimbroughj@mtnbrook.k12.al.us

Anna Comer holds both a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications and a master’s degree in counseling education from the University of Alabama. She served as a substance abuse and prevention therapist — as well as a family and youth intervention program coordinator — at Chilton-Shelby Mental Health Services from 1994 to 1998. From 1998 to 2002, she was a behavior program specialist at Shelby County Schools. 

Comer has four children, three of whom are enrolled in Mountain Brook Schools.

“The Mountain Brook school system has been such an amazing system for my family, and I truly want to give back,” Comer said. “I hope that I can be a good collaborator on the Board and a good communicator with the community. I’m excited about this opportunity.”

Comer succeeds Tommy Luckie, a lifelong Spartan who has served on the school board since 2011.

Email: comera@mtnbrook.k12.al.us

Nicky Barnes was born and raised in Michigan. She graduated from The University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and received a Masters of Science from University of Illinois Chicago. She is a Board Certified Nurse Midwife and practiced at UAB before retiring to care for her family full time. She and her husband Mack moved to Birmingham in 1995 for Mack to complete his fellowship at UAB and begin his medical practice.  

With a desire to become civically engaged, Nicky became active in the schools serving as PTO president at both Crestline Elementary and Mountain Brook High School. She has also served on the board of Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation and on the PTO Council. As a daughter of a lifelong educator, she has a personal interest in the success of Mountain Brook Schools, from which all four of her children have graduated. 

Email: barnesn@mtnbrook.k12.al.us

Jeffrey Brewer is the CEO of Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood (GMC). His leadership of the firm is focused on leaving a legacy of good and recognizing the opportunities we have to make people’s lives better. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, a Restoration Academy Board Member, CEO.net, and has committed to the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion Pledge. His civic and community leadership activities include the United Way of Greater Birmingham Campaign Chair and Leadership Birmingham Class of 2012.

He is a licensed architect who is especially experienced in facility planning and developing long-term, sustainable facility planning strategies. GMC has worked with over 100 K-12 school systems across the Southeast, providing Mr. Brewer a broad perspective of K-12 design trends.

As a longtime resident, he is deeply invested in the Mountain Brook community personally and professionally through several local projects that include the redevelopment of Lane Parke, the design and plan of the Piggly Wiggly in Crestline, and the Birmingham Zoo Welcome Center. He’s also been involved with many noteworthy projects in the Birmingham area, including the design of the Rotary Trail in downtown Birmingham, Protective Stadium at the BJCC, Finley Center at the Hoover Met Complex, Ross Bridge Hotel and Conference Center, and several projects at UAB, such as the new University Hall for the College of Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Brewer and his wife, Jennifer, have three children active in the Mountain Brook school system, with one other child who graduated in the Mountain Brook High School Class of 2020.

Email: brewerj@mtnbrook.k12.al.us

Daniel Odrezin was appointed to the Board of Education in April 2022.

“Serving on the Board of Education will be my way of helping to ensure the great educational experience that drew us to Mountain Brook is a reality for our son and so many others,” Odrezin said. 

Daniel and his wife, Meredith, reside in Mountain Brook with their son. Odrezin is a real estate attorney with a practice in the Cahaba Heights area and has previously served as the Assistant Executive Director of the Birmingham Jewish Federation. There he worked as a liaison with local schools and has worked closely with Mountain Brook Schools (MBS) in the past. In addition to his own experience working alongside MBS, Daniel’s father, Greg, taught sixth-grade math at Cherokee Bend for 15 years.

Email: odrezind@mtnbrook.k12.al.us