The Alabama Kiwanian was honored as a former Key Club member who has extraordinary leadership qualities.
By Julie Saetre
Scott Sims recently received the Marc H. Litwack Legacy of Leadership Award for 2024. A member of the Kiwanis Club of Homewood-Mountain Brook in Alabama, U.S., Sims received the honor in July during the 2024 Key Club International Convention, after being elected to a three-year term as a Kiwanis International trustee earlier that month.
The Marc H. Litwack Legacy of Leadership Award recognizes a former Key Club member who exemplifies extraordinary leadership qualities and has made significant contributions to their profession and community.
Sims joined Key Club in 1980 as a high school freshman. He was appointed to his first district leadership position, K-Relations chair, as a sophomore — and would go on to serve as his Key Club’s vice president (1981-82) and president (1982-84). Sims also was elected as a Key Club lieutenant governor (1982-83) and governor (1983-84).
In 1983, Sims received both the Yetta G. Samford Outstanding Lt. Governor Award from the Alabama District and the Robert F. Lucas Outstanding Lt. Governor Award from Kiwanis International. Sims also received the George Price Service to Youth Award from the Key Club Alabama District (2018-19) and the Governor’s Award from the Key Club Alabama District governor (2016-17).
A Kiwanian since 2002, Sims has continued his involvement with Key Club as a Kiwanian, including service as an advisor for the Homewood Key Club. He has mentored and encouraged many Key Club members at all levels.
Rip Livingston, a former Key Club International trustee (2014-15) and president (2015-16), was one of two individuals to nominate Sims for the Marc H. Litwack Legacy of Leadership Award.
“I’ve had the great pleasure of knowing many adults committed to the betterment of youth,” Livingston wrote in his nomination. “Of these, few have shown such a steadfast commitment as Scott Sims. His unwavering enthusiastic and heartfelt dedication to Kiwanis Service Leadership Programs and their youth members has positively impacted dozens — myself included.”
Sims met his wife, Andi, through Key Club and proposed to her at the 1990 Key Club District Convention. They have been married for 32 years. The couple have four children, one of whom served as Key Club district secretary and another who served as Key Club International president.