Dr. Kimberly Hadley

Dr. Hadley provides oversight and leadership for accounting, administrative services, auxiliary operations, facilities, enrollment management, human resources, information technology services, investments, university marketing and communications, student financial services, athletics and the university-owned radio station, KLRC.

Kim previously served JBU as vice president and chief operating officer and prior to that as vice president for finance & administration. However, she initially joined JBU full-time in 2004 as the organizational management program director in the Adult Degree Completion Program, after first serving as an adjunct instructor in that program and after a career in public accounting and internal audit. She also served JBU as director of professional studies faculty development and learning assessment and chair of the faculty affairs committee.

Kim holds a DBA in marketing from Anderson University, in Anderson, Indiana, and earned her BSBA in accounting and MBA from the University of Arkansas. Licensed by the Arkansas State Board of Public Accountancy, she is a member of the Arkansas Society of Certified Public Accountants. Kim was named the Arkansas Business 2020 Education CFO of the Year.

Kim currently serves on the board for the Southern Association of College and University Business Officers (SACUBO), and she previously served on the Small Institution Committee for the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) Standards Advisory Committee, and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) CFO Commission, including two terms as chair.

Kim and her husband Kelly actively attend Christian Life Cathedral, and they have two married children. Kim also serves on the board for Water for Good, as treasurer for the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas and on the finance subcommittee for the Children & Family Advocacy Center in Benton County.