Darrell O’Quinn is the Council President for 2023-2025 and represents District 5 on the Birmingham City Council. Councilor O’Quinn is the Chair of the Transportation Committee, and a member of the Economic Development & Tourism, Education, and Utilities & Technology Committees. 

Darrell has a long history of civic leadership. He served as president and vice president of the Crestwood Neighborhood Association from 2008-2017. During this time, Darrell joined the Birmingham Comprehensive Plan Implementation Committee (2014), became a member of Leadership Birmingham (2015), and was elected for president of the Citizens Advisory Board (2015-2017).

Darrell serves on the boards of Keep Birmingham Beautiful, Greater Crestwood Inc., and the Deep South Cancer Foundation. He is a former board member of Redemptive Cycles and former executive director of Move I-20/59.

Darrell graduated from Louisiana State University with a bachelor’s degree in zoology in 1995 and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 2000. He then came to the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he completed a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular pathology in 2005 and worked as a clinical veterinarian.