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Paul R. Hubbert was born in Jasper, Alabama, on December 25, 1935. He is the son of Pearl Hubbert and the late Virgil Hubbert. He attended Hubbertville School in grades one through twelve.
In 1954, Hubbert graduated with 43 other students which, at the time, was the largest graduating class ever at Hubbertville School. Hubbert graduated from Florence State College (now the University of North Alabama) in 1959. Five years later, he graduated from the University of Alabama after having received his Master’s and Doctor’s degrees in School Administration and Finance.
For three years, he served as Business Manager of the Tuscaloosa City Schools before moving to Troy, Alabama, serving as Superintendent of Troy City Schools between 1967-69.
On March 1, 1969, he became Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the Alabama Education Association, an organization which represents over 94,000 public school employees. He has held his current position for over 36 years.
After finishing one year at Florence State College in 1956, Hubbert married the former Ann McDonald of Carbon Hill. Ann graduated from the University of Alabama and in 1990 retired from teaching in the Montgomery County School System. They have two daughters, Theresa Ann Hubbert Fruge, M.D., who is a Radiologist in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Yolonda Hubbert Zink, who is a Chiropractor in Montgomery, Alabama. The Hubberts have four grandchildren, David and Rebecca Reiman, and Maxwell (Max) Thomas and Zoe Zink.
Dr. Hubbert is highly regarded as one of the state’s most influential citizens. A champion of the state’s teachers and support personnel, Hubbert has directly impacted every major piece of school reform and education employee legislation which has been approved by the Alabama Legislature during the past 3 decades.
When Hubbert took over, the AEA had fewer than 20,000 members and was in the process of merging with the (black) Alabama State Teachers’ Association. Today, AEA has a membership of over 94,000 (teachers, support persons, and retirees). In 1969, teacher salaries averaged about $4,800 annually. Today, the average teacher salary in Alabama is more than $41,000, with excellent retirement and health insurance benefits.
Dr. Hubbert and the AEA have pushed through or helped pass numerous important education bills, including but not limited to measures which provided:
Dr. Hubbert made his first political race in 1990. He defeated the State’s attorney general, a U.S. congressman, an influential state senator, and a former governor to win the Democratic nomination and came within an eyelash of unseating the incumbent governor in the general election. Four years later, he again faced an incumbent governor who received just 53 percent of the vote against education’s choice, Paul Hubbert.
Currently, Hubbert serves as Chairman of the Alabama Teacher Retirement System, a 15 billion-dollar pension program for school employees. AEA and Hubbert recently lead the effort to change the Tenure and Fair Dismissal Laws to provide for binding arbitration on terminations, transfers, and disciplinary actions affecting employees and to secure full funding for SACS Standards for Administrators, librarians, and counselors.
Dr. Hubbert is currently serving on Governor Riley’s Emergency Response Commission to the Health Care Crisis and was reappointed by the governor to serve on the Education Committee of the Alabama State Workforce Investment Board. He was recently appointed by Senate President Pro Tem Lowell Barron to serve on the Health Care Study Commission. He has also served on Governor Siegelman’s Commission on Instructional Improvement and Academic Excellence, the Southern Regional Education Board, and the State Literacy Workforce Development Council, as well as other committees appointed by Governors’ Wallace, James, and Hunt.
Today, the voice of AEA and Hubbert is stronger than ever on all issues relating to education and its funding.