FROM STAFF REPORTS

Elizabeth Wideman Bleiberg was recently appointed executive director of the Alabama Wildlife Center, a rehabilitation hospital for orphaned and injured wildlife at Oak Mountain State Park.

Bleiberg’s appointment follows a search that has been in place since the retirement of founder and former executive director Anne G. Miller in February 2008.

Bleiberg is a Birmingham native and has been active in nonprofit management and fund-raising in organizations in North Carolina, Kentucky, Texas and Canada.

She returned to Alabama from Texas last fall with her family