David Donaldson is director of Community and Government Relations and vice president of the Vulcan Foundation at Vulcan Materials Company, where he is responsible for the community and governmental relations programs of the company's corporate office and eight operating divisions. Donaldson graduated from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, with a B.A. in English literature and holds a master's degree in public and private management from Birmingham-Southern College. He currently serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the Nature Conservancy, Alabama Chapter. He is also on the board of directors of the Salvation Army Advisory Board, Birmingham, and serves on Leadership Birmingham's Members' Council, where he is co-chairman of the council's program committee.