Elwynne Rotaru joined the staff of Birmingham United Methodist Church in July of 2006 in the position of Administrative Assistant. A native of Atlanta, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Adelphi University in New York and attended graduate school in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley where she was a teaching assistant in German.

Her immediate previous work experience involved ballet company management in Atlanta. For three years she was Administrative Director of the Atlanta Ballet where she supervised all departments and for the following twenty years was Executive Director of Ballet Rotaru, a professional school and company founded by her husband, Pavel Rotaru, former career principal ballet dancer with the National Ballet of Romania. She was responsible for producing, managing, and promoting professional productions in every major theater in Atlanta and others throughout the country and abroad. One tour of Romania was filmed by Georgia Public Television in an Emmy-nominated documentary.

Previously she was Assistant to the Managing Director of the Atlanta Office of McKinsey & Company, an international management consulting firm, where her responsibilities included serving as staff editor and event manager. She has worked in public relations and attended the Woodrow Wilson School of Law in Atlanta.

Elwynne and her husband have a son, Philip Alexander. They have been residents of Alpharetta for fifteen years.