Ammie Akin

According to her campaign website, Akin earned degrees from the University of Alabama and a master's degree and a doctorate in educational leadership from Samford University. She began her career about 25 years ago teaching a group of students with special needs in Hoover, and later helped raise funds for and build a campus for a program called Unless U.[2] Akin describes a career in education as a teacher, principal and nonprofit leader, and says she has taught future principals and superintendents at the University of Alabama.[5][2]

Her campaign describes her as an entrepreneur, multi-level educator and longtime advocate for people with disabilities, and as co-founder of a nonprofit facility it calls the first of its kind in the country. According to her campaign website, she and her husband, Will, are developing Hub in the Hills, a privately funded project to turn a former elementary school into a shared campus for nonprofit organizations and programs for adults with disabilities. They have three sons.[1][2] Akin won the August 11, 2026 special Republican primary with 73.4% of the vote over David Perry, a pastor in Selma.[3][5] She received 30.6% of the vote to Terri Sewell's 69.4%, according to unofficial results reported by NBC News.[4]