Kimberly Adams
Chairperson and Trustee
Kimberly Adams was elected to her first three-year term as an ERFC Trustee in spring 2015 and has served as ERFC Board Chairperson since FY2017. Adams serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of the National Council on Teacher Retirement (NCTR). She is an Accredited Fiduciary (AF) through the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS) and has her Certificate of Achievement in Public Plan Policy (CAPP) with the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP). Adams participates in the Trustee Leadership Forum (TLF) with the Harvard Law School and trustee education programs with NCTR and NCPERS, among others.
Adams is a librarian/media specialist with Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS). She has spent 25 years teaching, with most of those years as a school librarian and classroom teacher. Adams took a break from her role as librarian to serve as the president of the Fairfax Education Association (FEA) from 2019-22, leading through the COVID pandemic. FEA is a local affiliate of the Virginia Education Association and the National Education Association. The union now negotiates Collective Bargaining Agreements through the Fairfax Education Unions (FEU)—an organization created through collaboration of the FEA and Fairfax County Federation of Teachers (FCFT). Adams previously served as president of FEA from 2013-16.
Adams earned her Bachelor of Science in elementary education with a minor in English from Central Connecticut State University located in New Britain, Connecticut (1999); her Certificate in School Library Media from the University of Virginia College at Wise, in Wise, Virginia (2005); and her master’s in educational leadership from Concordia University located in Portland, Oregon (2016).