John O. Hudson III
Vice President of Public Relations
Alabama Power Company
John O. Hudson III is an
attorney who serves as
vice president of Public
Relations at Alabama Power
Company. The company
provides reliable, affordable
electricity to more than 1.4
million customers across the state of Alabama. He
was recently elected to the board of directors of the
Alabama Power Foundation, one of the state’s largest
corporate philanthropic organizations.
Prior to joining Alabama Power, Hudson served
as senior vice president of corporate diversity and
public affairs at Regions Financial Corporation,
one of the nation’s largest full-service providers of
consumer and commercial banking, trust, securities
brokerage, mortgage and insurance products and
services. Hudson continues to have an association
with Regions – the only Fortune 500 company
headquartered in the state of Alabama – as chairman
of the organization’s Diversity Advisory Council.
Prior to joining Regions Financial Corporation,
Hudson was engaged in the private practice of law,
and also served as president and chairman of The
Hudson Group – a public policy consulting firm that
provided strategic communication and governmental
affairs counsel to a vast array of corporate clients.
Before practicing law and establishing The Hudson
Group, he served in roles of increasing professional
responsibility at Alabama Power. During that time,
he served as assistant to the president and CEO and
as area manager of the Birmingham Division, the
company’s largest customer service and operations
center.
A member of the Alabama State Bar (ASB) and of
ASB’s Diversity In the Practice Committee, Hudson
is also a member of the American Bar Association,
the National Bar Association and the Alabama
Lawyers Association. He is licensed to practice law
in all Alabama state courts as well as the United
States District Courts of the Middle, Northern and
Southern Districts of Alabama.
Integrally involved in the community, Hudson serves
as a member of the board of directors of several civic
organizations, including the Birmingham Museum
of Art, Children’s Health System of Alabama, A.G.
Gaston Boys and Girls Club and the Birmingham
Jefferson Film Commission. He also serves as a
distinguished member of the Kiwanis Club of
Birmingham, the Newcomen Society of Alabama,
Kappa Alpha Psi Inc., and Sigma Pi Phi fraternity,
also known as the Boule’.
With a strong interest in aiding institutions of
higher learning, Hudson serves as a board member
of Miles College, Miles College School of Law and
the Jefferson State Community College Foundation.
Hudson received a bachelor’s degree in political
science from Alabama A&M University, is a cum
laude graduate of Miles College School of Law,
completed the Executive Accounting and Finance
Program at the Wharton School of Business at the
University of Pennsylvania, and has worked toward
an LL.M. in taxation at the University of Alabama
School of Law.
He and his wife, Nyya, a municipal court judge in
Birmingham, have an 8-year-old daughter, Jordyn.