Alma Vivian Powell (née Johnson; October 27, 1937 – July 28, 2024) was an American audiologist and the wife of military and political figure Colin Powell,[1] to whom she was married from August 25, 1962 until his death in 2021.

[2] Born on October 27, 1937, in Birmingham, Alabama, Alma Powell graduated from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and went on to study speech pathology and audiology at Emerson College in Boston.

[citation needed] She was the mother of former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Michael Powell.

[5] Powell was the chair of America's Promise, the nation's largest partnership dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth.

[6][7] In 2011 she was named the NASBE's National Education Policy Leader of the Year along with her husband.