Lovette Russell
Lovette Russell
Senior Consultant
At Coxe Curry, Lovette’s consulting specialties include board development, volunteer engagement, and fundraising campaigns.
Recently, she’s worked with the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs, Westside Future Fund, the Woodruff Arts Center, and Woodward Academy.
A graduate of Spelman College, Lovette is an active alumna and is Chair of the College’s Board of Trustees. She also chairs the Hughes Spalding Hospital Community Foundation and is a member of Buckhead Cascade City Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.
Many organizations have honored Lovette for her service and impact. Having chaired or co-chaired many of the city’s leading events—including the Mayor’s Masked Ball, the Atlanta History Center’s Swan House Ball, Zoo Atlanta’s The Beastly Feast, Park Pride’s 25th Anniversary Gala, and the inaugural Grady Hospital Gala—she was named the 2012 Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. That same year, she received the 11Alive Boisfeuillet Jones Community Service Award and was named the Mary Caan Volunteer of the Year by the Lupus Foundation. Both the YWCA of Greater Atlanta and Atlanta Woman Magazine recognized her as a Woman of Achievement. Lovette received the Trailblazer Award from the NAACP in 2013. In 2017, she was honored by the naming of the emergency department at Hughes Spalding Hospital as the Lovette Twyman Russell Emergency Department. Most recently, she was honored at the Atlanta History Center’s 35th annual Swan House Ball and by Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at their 2023 Hope & Will Ball.
An experienced triathlete, Lovette has completed several triathlon events, in addition to the Honolulu Marathon, and has trained groups of women and inner-city children to compete in triathlons. She and her husband, Michael Russell, CEO of H. J. Russell & Company, are the proud parents of two children—Michael, director of partnership sales at Fenway Sports Management, and Benjamin, who completed his master’s at the University of South Carolina and is now an assistant project manager at McKenney’s, Inc.