Caroline Aderholt was confirmed by the Alabama Senate as an Auburn Trustee for a seven-year term to begin February 16, 2022. Her first term will expire on February 15, 2029.

Aderholt is an owner, manager and shareholder in family-owned businesses involved in farming and real estate, including McDonald Farms Partnership, Greenbrier Enterprises LLC and Armadale Properties LLC. Since 2012, she has served as committee co-chair for The Women’s Events for the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., hosting more than 400 national and 200 international women on behalf of the Congressional Spouses of the United States.

Aderholt graduated in 1990 from Birmingham-Southern College with a double major in political science and business management. Aderholt has strong ties to Auburn University. She is the daughter of Albert McDonald—an Auburn alumnus, former Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, former Alabama state senator and prior Auburn Board of Trustees member from 1996 to 1997. Aderholt’s brother, Stan McDonald, graduated from Auburn in 1983 and was among student leaders who started Legislative Days in Montgomery that allowed Auburn students to lobby the state legislature on behalf of their university. Most recently, Aderholt’s daughter, Mary Elliott Aderholt, graduated from Auburn in 2021 with a degree in public relations and served on the Student Government Association and was president of Chi Omega sorority. Aderholt and her husband, Robert, also have a son, Robert Hayes.

In 1991, Aderholt joined the Metropolitan Development Board—the economic development agency for the five-county area surrounding Birmingham, Alabama. While there, she served as director of Medical Economic Development, being responsible for marketing Birmingham’s growing medical and research assets to prospective companies. Three years later, Aderholt continued contract work for the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama and the Business Council of Alabama, and in 1996 her husband won a bid for the U.S. Congress in the Fourth Congressional District of Alabama. In 2015, Aderholt joined Concerned Women for America as their chief of staff in Washington, D.C. and later joined their national board of directors. She completed a 12-year term on the University of Montevallo Board of Trustees in 2017 and currently serves on the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Selection Committee.