Biography

Gigi Armbrecht is AT&T’s regional director in the company’s Mobile district. She directs the company’s strategic relationships and external affairs activities and leads company efforts at the state and local levels to build a business-friendly community. Prior to her position at AT&T, Armbrecht was the Executive Director of Mobile United, an organization that serves as a forum for present and future community leaders. She has been an associate of the Kettering Foundation and is a fellow in the W.K. Kellogg National Fellowship Program (Class V). In her work for the Kettering Foundation she helped develop national models and discussion guides for public conversations on matters as delicate and vital as education and race relations. A former member of the National Civic League Board of Directors, she was a three-time judge for All America City and assisted in crafting Mobile’s winning application in 1995. Armbrecht has served on a number of community boards and commissions. She is a past chair of Voices for Alabama’s Children, the Mobile Area Education Foundation, United Way of Southwest Alabama and Girl Scouts of the Deep South Council. She is a past Board Chair and Campaign Chair for United Way and past President of the Rotary Club of Mobile-Sunrise. She is a past chair of Envision Coastal Alabama and sits on the Building Authority for the Alabama School of Math and Science. In 2009 she was named the University of South Alabama’s 2009 Distinguished Alumni for Community Service and Beta Sigma Phi’s First Lady of Mobile. Armbrecht is also a graduate of Leadership Mobile and Leadership Alabama. Armbrecht graduated from the University of Alabama and holds two master’s degrees from the University of South Alabama. She is married to Conrad Armbrecht and has two grown children and three grandchildren.