Lee Marshall is the Founder and President of KTECH, a private school founded as a workforce initiative of the Kids to Love Foundation.

Lee is also the Founder & CEO of Kids to Love, a non-profit organization in its 20th year of service meeting the needs of foster children and families. Lee’s purpose began the moment she was born. Her biological mother placed her for adoption at birth, and her adoptive parents became her “forever family” when she was 2 years old. So, Lee’s motivation to impact foster children through her Kids to Love Foundation is simple: It could have been her.

Since 2004, Kids to Love has grown from one program that ran out of Lee’s garage to equip foster children with school supplies to more than a dozen programs that operate across three campuses impacting the lives of more than 300,000 in 20 years. One of those initiatives is KTECH, a licensed private school offering certifications in Mechatronics, Robotics, Soldering, Virtual Reality, and Snap-on tools.

Before KTECH even became a reality, Lee met with industry leaders in our community to find out employment needs that those aging out of foster care would benefit from gaining skills in. She was influenced to look at creating a workforce training program that would help fill a huge employment gap in the Manufacturing sector in North Alabama. Today, KTECH’s student base has expanded from just youth in foster care to the underserved and high school graduates looking to get right into the workforce and earn a living.

In 2023, Lee was a nominee for the Russell G. Brown Executive Leadership Award through the Huntsville Madison County Small Business Awards. At the Small Business Awards in 2021, Kids to Love was named Non-Profit of the Year and Woman-Owned Business of the Year.

Lee earned her Bachelor’s degree in Communications from Murray State University and her Master’s degree in Social Work from Walden University. She also received a scholarship and completed Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspective in Nonprofit Management Course. Lee earned a certification in Instinctual Trauma Response therapy, a therapy specifically designed to heal trauma for children in foster care.

Amongst all the amazing accomplishments, Lee will be the first to tell you the greatest is her family. She and Jeff have been married for more than 30 years and have two daughters, Ella and Emma.