Children’s of Alabama Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer (CDO) Coke S. Matthews, III is retiring in March.

Chandler Bibb has been appointed to succeed Matthews. Bibb joined Children’s in 2013, serving most recently as director of development. She came to Children’s from Birmingham’s McWane Science Center where she was Vice President of Marketing and Development.

Bibb is a graduate of the University of Georgia. She received a Master of Management in Health Care from Vanderbilt and completed the Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership program at the Harvard Kennedy School. She has also received several other professional designations and honors, including the 2020 Association of Healthcare Philanthropy’s 40 Under 40 winner, a graduate of the 2014 class of Leadership UAB, and the Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) designation.

Matthews, who has served as CDO at Children’s since 2002, led the successful $100 million Keeping Promises Capital Campaign to support major expansion at Children’s. Under his leadership, the development program at Children’s helped to provide funding support not only for the transformation of the downtown Russell Campus, but also for the expansion of many pediatric clinical programs, as well as myriad family-centered care services for patients and their families.