Draft:Jennifer K. Kimball

Jennifer K. Kimball is a retired American singer/songwriter. Her hits include Sheena Easton’s “ALMOST OVER YOU” in 1984, and Dan Seal’s crossover, “BOP”, the 1986 Country Music Association Single of the Year.

She cowrote Linda Ronstadt’s (and the Trio II’s) “BLUE TRAIN”, and the #1 Reba McEntire/Brooks and Dunn duet “IF YOU SEE HIM/IF YOU SEE HER” , as well as “I CAN LOVE YOU LIKE THAT”, recorded by both John Michael Montgomery and All-4-One, which garnered four Grammy nominations , won NSAI’s 1996 Song of the Year , was featured in the Walt Disney Studios movie “First Kid’ and Fox TV’s “The Simpsons” , and is the only song ever to win both ASCAP and BMI Country Song of the Year.

Her music has been featured in soundtracks from Coyote Ugly, A Dog's Journey, and Black Dog. Her songs have also been recorded by Faith Hill, Bette Midler, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, Don Williams, Cliff Richard, 98 Degrees, Dobie Gray, America, and Claire Lynch.

History
Jennifer K. Kimball was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky—the fourth of seven children (her oldest brother, sportswriter George E. Kimball III, died in 2011) of a career Army colonel and an English professor mother. She had a global upbringing and spoke Chinese before learning English. She attended Hollins College, spent a year abroad in Paris, France, and graduated cum laude from the University of Alabama.

She moved to Nashville, Tennessee in December 1977 and toured for four years as a backup singer for Crystal Gayle. She toured briefly with Roseanne Cash and recorded with Gayle, Cash, Pam Tillis, Vince Gill, Dolly Parton and Nanci Griffith (including Nanci’s Dust Bowl Symphony album, recorded live with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios).

Jennifer helped found non-profit Girls on the Run Nashville in 2007, and served as its Executive Director until 2014, when she became a Teach for America corps member. She was awarded a Master of Education in Instructional Practice at Lipscomb University in 2015, and taught kindergarten and 3rd grade in Title 1 schools for 5 years, retiring in 2019.