Candidate: Alberta Hipps

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Alberta Hipps is an experienced business and community leader with proven success at negotiating complex public/private partnerships and building consensus for significant community projects. She has a background in healthcare and is a distinguished former Jacksonville City Council President. Her background also includes a broad scope of formulating public and private policy and guiding administrative and legislative decisions.

Most notably is her crucial leadership role in the 1993 Base Re-Alignment Commission (BRAC) process and the subsequent conversion of Naval Air Station Cecil Field from military to civilian aviation/commercial/recreational uses through a community vision planning process.

Under her tenure and collaborative work with federal, regional and local elected officials as well as community stakeholders, the city implemented the visioning plan known today as Cecil Airport, Cecil Commerce Center/Alliance Florida and Cecil FSCJ campus. Her service as an elected official was highlighted by her leadership coordination with Mayor John Delaney for City Council approval of the $2.2 billion Better Jacksonville Plan.

Alberta has been president of Hipps Group Inc. since 2004. She’s served on the Florida Association of Counties Board of Directors; was appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush to the Florida Growth Management Commission; Chaired Northeast Florida Regional Planning Council and the Jacksonville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO/TPO). She was appointed by both Govs Jeb Bush and Charlie Crist to the state’s Workforce Florida Board; Mayor John Peyton appointed her to the Jacksonville Journey Task Force and she chaired the City Council’s Public Services Grant Council. In 2019, she was a member of the City Council’s Open Government Task Force.

EDUCATION

• Master of Arts in Business Administration, Jacksonville University College of Business
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing, University of North Florida’s College of Health Sciences
• Associates of Science Degree in Nursing, Florida State College at Jacksonville

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

President of Hipps Group Inc. – 2004 to present 
Director, Medical Staff Support – St. Vincent’s Health System, Jacksonville, Florida
Director, Heart & Lung Institute – St. Vincent’s Health System, Jacksonville, Florida
Co-Director, Education Department – St. Vincent’s Health System, Jacksonville, Florida
Director Pulmonary Rehab -St. Vincent’s Health System, Jacksonville, Florida
Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse/Coordinator – Cystic Fibrosis Center-Baptist Medical Center

PUBLIC / ELECTED SERVICE EXPERIENCE

Jacksonville City Council District Representative — 1995–2003 
President of Jacksonville City Council — 1999–2000

PERSONAL

Married to Frank Hipps for 61+ years; they are co-owners of a beef herd and other farm animals on a Westside farm and have real estate interest in Jacksonville’s Westside and in Western North Carolina. Frank and Alberta have two grown children, a son Darby Hipps and daughter Lara Hipps and one granddaughter Sarah Hagan Hipps.

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS / 
COMMUNITY SERVICE / MEMBERSHIPS

• American Planning National and Local Associations
• Jacksonville Women’s Network (member)
• Leadership Jacksonville Planning Committee Economy, Growth and Preservation Day
• Leadership Florida (Class XVII)
• Northside Business Leaders (member)
• Rotary Club of West Jacksonville
• Westside Business Leaders (Vice President)

PAST PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS / 
COMMUNITY SERVICE / MEMBERSHIPS

• Adult Cystic Fibrosis Jacksonville Chapter Board 
• American Lung Association Board (State and Local Past Chair)
• Better Westside Project (Charter Member)
• Blueprint for Prosperity Steering Committee (Chair, Quality of Life Foundation Team)
• Girl Scouts Gateway Council (Board Member)
• Florida Association of Counties (Board Member)
• Florida Regional Planning (Council Chair)
• Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce West Council (Board Member)
• Jacksonville Journey Task Force (Neighborhood Safety and Stability Subcommittee)
• Jacksonville Symphony Guild (President –July 1, 2012- June 30, 2013)
• Jacksonville University Nursing (Advisory Committee)
• Jacksonville Wireless Internet Zone (Advisory Council)
• Jacksonville Women’s Network (Board Member)
• JCCI Management Committee for City of Jacksonville Financial Crisis Study
• Leadership Florida (Class XVII) (Board Member)
• League of Women Voter’s (Board Member)
• Mayor’s Commission on the Status of Women (Chair and Board Member)
• Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) (Chair and Member)
• Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida Charter (Board Member)
• North Florida Equestrian Society (President 2003-2005)
• Jacksonville City Council Public Services Grant Council (Chair)
• Riverside Avondale Preservation Society (Board Member)
• Tillie Fowler Excellence in Public Service Series 2005
• Tree Hill (Board Member) • University of North Florida Health (Advisory Committee)
• Westside Business Leaders Association (Past President)