Category: Past Speakers

William Admire, D.O., is the Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Mobile Infirmary and North Baldwin Infirmary and has served Infirmary Health in multiple capacities since joining the organization in 2013. In addition to Chief Medical Officer responsibilities, Dr. Admire continues to work with Infirmary Occupational Health and iHealthy, Infirmary Health’s external wellness program.
Dr. Admire holds a Bachelor of Arts from Susquehanna University and Doctor of Osteopathy from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed an internship at Delaware Valley Medical Center and an internal medicine residency at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Penn. Dr. Admire is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. In 2016, Dr. Admire participated in the Institute for Physician Leadership program through the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Admire has numerous professional accomplishments and affiliations including serving with the Mobile Police Department as the police surgeon for 20 years, ProAssurance board member, Infirmary Health physician advisor and claims committee member, Spanish Fort High School team physician, Gulf Coast and Kensington Nursing Home director, Mobile Infirmary, Thomas Hospital, and North Baldwin ACOM medical director, and as the Alabama Hospital Association physician representative. In his spare time, Dr. Admire enjoys basketball, bicycling and the outdoors.

Biography of Nina Ford Johnson, MD
Nina Ford Johnson, MD, FAAP, has been practicing as a general pediatrician in Mobile, AL for nine years. She graduated in 2003 from Tennessee State University with a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences. Shortly thereafter, she completed her medical doctorate from Meharry Medical College in 2008 and finished her pediatric residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. Currently she holds board and committee appointments with the Medical Society of Mobile County, Alabama Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Alabama Medicaid Medical Care Advisory Committee. In her spare time, she loves to read, give lectures on pediatric issues, kissing the cheeks of her children (Poppy, Bella, and Ava), traveling with her husband (Pastor Alexander Johnson, Jr.), and singing classical music.

Garrett Williamson
A native Mobilian, Garrett is a graduate of UMS-Wright Preparatory School and holds a bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science from the University of Georgia where he was a pole-vaulter. After graduation, he earned his Master’s in Fitness Management from the United States Sports Academy, interning in Dallas, Texas at Dr. Kenneth Coopers’ Aerobic Research Facility and also in Tulsa, Oklahoma at St. Johns Medical facility.
After eight years of personal training in Georgia, Oklahoma and Alabama, he opened Personal Edge Fitness in 2000 which offers a-la-carte services in personal training, rehabilitation, Virtual training, and Corporate wellness by certified and degreed professionals. He is also the Host of the Personal Edge Fitness Podcast and Radio show.
In 2010 Garrett re-entered the competitive athletic field in Sprint Triathlon for Team USA. Still at it today, he has competed in 8 World Championship races for TEAM USA in 3 different multisport categories (Sprint triathlon, Aquathlon and Aquabike) He is slated to represent the US in the 2021 Multisport World championships next September in Amsterdam.
Garrett is married to Stephanie Jane Eads from Jasper, Alabama, who is the executive director of Save a Stray. Stephanie and Garrett are the proud parents of five dogs, in addition to providing temporary homes to 100s of foster dogs every year for over 20 years. In addition to other charitable and civic organizations, Garret has been a member of the Rotary club of Mobile since 2010 and serves currently as our Vice President.

Kenneth Dale Speetjens is the Co-Founder and CEO of Shipshape Urban Farms, an agritech company focused on the design, manufacturing, and operation of hydroponic farms built inside up-cycled shipping containers. The technology developed by Dale and the Shipshape team requires 90% less water, significantly less energy vs. conventional farming, and can go anywhere.
Dale began his career by serving in the United States Armed Forces. During this time with the military Dale was deployed, Iraq, where he served with honor. After leaving the military he began his studies at Auburn University were he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a bachelors of Environmental Design and a masters in both Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning while working as a Graduate Research Assistant. After graduation, Dale joined Mobile’s Bloomberg Innovation Team. His work focused on the Blight Index, a project Mobile has received international attention for in several publications including; Fast Company and Strongtowns. After nearly two years with the Innovation Team, Dale was asked to teach alongside an international team of architects, landscape architects, urban designers, and planners at the Galapagos International Architecture Studio in the Galapagos Islands. His class spent five weeks developing a path for the islands to become more sustainable. Upon his return to the United States Dale was asked to join Auburn University’s College of Architecture, Design, and Construction as a visiting Professor. Over the next three semesters Dale taught while planning to launch Shipshape Urban Farms.

BIO – JANET L. COBB, MG (USA Retired)
Executive Director, USS Alabama Battleship Commission and Battleship Memorial Park, Mobile, Alabama
Janet Cobb became the eighth executive director of the USS ALABAMA Battleship Commission and Battleship Memorial Park on December 14, 2015.
She enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve in May 1974 and served until August 1976. She was commissioned a Second Lieutenant, Signal Corps in May 1978 from the University of Alabama ROTC program, where she was named a Distinguished Military Graduate. MG (Ret.) Cobb was the fifty-fourth general officer and first female general officer to graduate from the University of Alabama. In April 2017, MG (Ret.) Cobb was one of seven selectees for the inaugural University of Alabama ROTC Hall of Fame.
She commanded at the detachment, battalion, brigade, directorate/brigadier general and major general levels. Her deployments include post-Desert Storm operations at the Ports of Al Jubayl and Ab Dammam, Saudi Arabia; Operation Iraqi Freedom port operations, Port of Ash Shuyabah, Kuwait (2002-2003).
MG (Ret.) Cobb’s additional deployments were joint assignments, where she served as Commander, 598th Transportation Group (Terminal)(2007), Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with oversight of military ports in Europe and North Africa; and Director, Central Command Deployment & Distribution Operations Center (Camp Arifjan, Kuwait)(2011), which directed all intra-theater airlift for Iraq and Afghanistan.
MG (Ret.) Cobb was assigned to the Department of the Army Staff as the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4, (Mobilization and Training) from 2011-2014. She was mobilized and served in the Pentagon on the Army Staff as Deputy G-4 in 2012. In October 2013, then-Secretary of the Army John Marsh appointed MG (Ret.) Cobb to the Army Reserve Forces Policy Committee for a two-year term.
Her last assignment was Commanding General, 81st Regional Support Command, Fort Jackson, South Carolina and Senior Commander, U.S. Army Garrison Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico. On August 8, 2016 she was retired from the Army of the United States after 42 years in uniform.
Her decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (3), and various campaign and service awards.
She holds a J.D. from Cumberland School of Law, Samford University; an M.S.S. from the United States Army War College and a B.A. from the University of Alabama.
MG (Ret.) Cobb is a past USS ALABAMA Battleship Commissioner. She serves on the boards of the Historic Naval Ships Association, The Lee Foundation and the Equine Therapy Group for Veterans. She is member of the Mobile Bay Area Veterans Day Commission Board of Trustees and serves on the Veterans Initiative Advisory Council of the Community Foundation of South Alabama. MG (Ret.) Cobb holds a real estate license with the State of Alabama. She is a member of VFW Post 5658, American Legion Post 99 and other professional and civic organizations.
She is a resident of the Barnwell community in Baldwin County.

Monde Donaldson is vice president of the Better Business Bureau Educational Foundation of Central and
South Alabama. In this position, her goal is to expand awareness of the BBB by creating relationships
with business leaders, community partners and the general public. Since coming to the BBB last year,
she has focused her attention on educating the public in South Alabama on consumer issues, scam alerts
and fraud schemes. She recently completed intensive fraud training as a national scholarship recipient
for a FINRA-sponsored workshop.
The Mobile native came to the BBB after spending 27 years at Spring Hill College in the advancement
division as a senior major gifts officer and director of alumni relations. In 2006, she was named
fundraiser of the year by the Mobile chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She also
worked as director of development at McGill-Toolen Catholic High School for 10 years. Before coming to
Spring Hill, she worked at the University of Alabama, The Anniston Star and The Pensacola New Journal.
She is a 1975 graduate of the University of Alabama where she served as editor of the student
newspaper, The Crimson White.
Her civic involvement includes the Rotary Club of Mobile, Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce Small
Business Council, vice president of the Diocese of Mobile Catholic Foundation Board, and a founding
member of the Blessed Francis Seelos Catholic Church in Spanish Fort.