Gidget Kidd '91 was first appointed to the UNCW Board of Trustees by the UNC Board of Governors in 2013. She is now serving a term ending in 2023.
She currently serves as a member of the Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee, External Affairs Committee, and Endowment Board.
Kidd is a current member and immediate past chair of the Asheboro City Schools Board of Education.
After graduating from the University of North Carolina Wilmington with a degree in elementary education in 1991, she was an elementary and middle school teacher with Randolph County Schools and was director of the preschool program at Asheboro First United Methodist Church.
'She has been engaged as a leader in numerous community organizations.