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New Chorus Director and Music
Instructor is Former Member of Award-Winning Country Group
Kathy Forester Adkins, who performed with the popular country
group, The Forester Sisters, from 1984-1996, is the new Choral
Director/Music Instructor at Northeast Alabama Community
College.
 Adkins
and The Forester Sisters performed throughout the United States
and Europe. They participated in several USO performances in
places such as Iceland, Cuba, Spain, Italy, etc. They were
nominated for three Grammies and received one Academy of Country
Music Award for Vocal Group of the Year. “Being able to perform
for our service men and women during the holiday season was
probably one of the highlights of my life,” stated Adkins.
Before coming to NACC, Adkins, of Rising
Fawn, Georgia, was the Choral Director for Dade County Schools
in Trenton. She directed middle and high school choirs. Several
of her students participated in Georgia All-State Chorus each
year and her choirs received Superior and Excellent ratings at
Large Group Performance Evaluations hosted by Georgia Music
Educator’s Association. Her Advanced Choir was the featured
guest choir at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Choral
Department’s Spring Concert in 2006.
Adkins was named Dade County Teacher of the Year in 2003. By
student nomination, she appeared several times in Who’s Who
Among Teachers.
Adkins served as Choral Director at Catoosa County Schools in
Ringgold, Georgia for one year where she directed middle and
high school choirs. Some of her students participated in the
Georgia All-State Chorus. She was a music teacher in the Dade
County Schools where she taught general music classes at four
elementary schools. She served as an adjunct faculty member at
Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond where she taught
freshman theory and class piano.
A graduate of The University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Adkins
has a doctorate of education. Her dissertation, “The Singing
Schools of New Salem, Georgia,” was an oral history project
documenting the singing schools held in the community of New
Salem located on Lookout Mountain in Dade County. She also holds
a Master of Music degree in Theory and Composition from Eastern
Kentucky University at Richmond where she was chosen as
Outstanding Musical Alumnus in 1990 and for the Distinguished
Hall of Alumni in 1993. She received a Bachelor of Music Degree
from Wesleyan College in Macon where she was nominated for
Wesleyan Woman of the Year and the Katherine Rogers Leadership
Award. She received the Sigma Alpha Iota Sword of Honor
Leadership Award and the Doris O. Jelks Service Award in Music.
In addition, she received the United Methodist and Ty Cobb
Educational Foundation scholarships.
“I am truly honored to a member of the Northeast Alabama
Community College faculty,” said Adkins. “It is a great pleasure
to work with such talented students and I look forward to many
wonderful things ahead.”
Adkins resides in the community of New Salem on Lookout
Mountain. She is married to Terry Adkins and has three children
– Amonie, Kerry , and Cole.
For more information on Choral Music at Northeast, go to
www.nacc.edu or contact Adkins at 256-638-4418 or 228-6001, ext.
215, or by E-mail at adkinsk@nacc.edu.
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