Ivy Taylor

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Ivy Taylor (2017)

Ivy Ruth Taylor (born June 17, 1970 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American politician . She is a member of the Democratic Party and was Mayor of San Antonio , Texas , from July 22, 2014 to June 21, 2017 . Taylor was the first African American female mayor of San Antonio and the first African American female mayor of a city in the United States of more than one million people. She has been President of Rust College in Holly Springs , Mississippi, since June 2020 .

Life

Ivy Taylor's parents are originally from Wilmington , North Carolina and moved to New York City before she was born. Taylor was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Jamaica , a borough of the New York borough of Queens , where she attended school. After graduating from high school, Taylor began studying American Studies at Yale University , where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1992 . She then earned her Master of Science degree in urban planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . During this time she completed an internship with the San Antonio Affordable Housing Association in 1997.

After graduating in 1999, Ivy Taylor returned to San Antonio and began working in the city's Housing and Community Development Department . From 2006 to 2008, Taylor was a member of the San Antonio City Planning Commission. In 2009, Taylor was elected to the San Antonio City Council as Representative of the Second Ward . There were re-elections in 2011 and 2013. After the then Acting Mayor Julián Castro in July 2014 by President Barack Obama for housing and urban development minister was appointed, Taylor was appointed to a vote within the city council to the new mayor.

After Taylor announced that she only wanted to end Castro's term in office and not run in the 2015 mayoral election in San Antonio, she finally announced her candidacy on February 16, 2015. In the election on May 9, 2015, Taylor received the second-most votes with 28.4 percent, behind the former representative Leticia Van de Putte. In the following runoff election , however, Taylor was able to win more voters. On November 13, 2016, Taylor announced that he would run for a second full term in the following year’s mayoral election. In the election on May 6, 2017, Taylor was ahead of her opponent Ron Nirenberg with 42.01 percent of the vote, but she was defeated in the runoff election on June 10, 2017.

After her mayoral defeat, Taylor worked briefly as a consultant and then took up a two-year doctoral degree in university management from the University of Pennsylvania , which she will graduate with a Doctor of Education degree in August 2020. On May 12, 2020, she was named president of Rust College, a historically African-American college in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She took office on June 1, 2020.

Ivy Taylor considers himself politically independent, but is officially a member of the Democratic Party. Taylor is married and has a daughter with whom she lives in Holly Springs. The family also owns a house in Dignowity Hill , a borough in east San Antonio that has been managing mainly Taylor's husband Rodney since they moved to Mississippi. Ivy Taylor has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio College of Public Policy since 2009 .

Web links

Commons : Ivy Taylor  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ W. Gardner Selby: With Ivy Taylor, San Antonio is largest US city to ever have African American female mayor. In: politifact.com , August 6, 2014, accessed July 14, 2019.
  2. ^ Robert Rivard: Conversation: Mayor Ivy Taylor. The Rivard Report, July 30, 2014, accessed July 14, 2019.
  3. ↑ Josh Baugh: San Antonio chooses Ivy Taylor as new mayor. San Antonio Express-News , July 23, 2014, accessed July 14, 2019.
  4. ↑ Josh Baugh: Ivy Taylor becomes mayor. San Antonio Express-News, July 22, 2014, accessed July 14, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Josh Baugh: Mayor Ivy Taylor declares candidacy. San Antonio Express-News, February 16, 2015, accessed July 14, 2019.
  6. ^ Ivy Taylor Elected Mayor of San Antonio in Runoff. American Broadcasting Company , June 14, 2015; Archived from the original on June 26, 2015 ; accessed on July 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Josh Baugh: Mayor announces re-election campaign. San Antonio Express-News, November 13, 2016, accessed July 14, 2019.
  8. ↑ Bruce Selcraig: Ivy Taylor, former San Antonio mayor, heads to college president job. In: San Antonio Express News. May 12, 2020, accessed June 24, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Bio for Ivy R. Taylor. Rust College , May 12, 2020, accessed June 24, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Iris Dimmick: Former SA Mayor Ivy Taylor 'Turning the Page' to Lead Mississippi College. In: The Rivard Report. May 12, 2020, accessed June 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Ivy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taylor, Ivy Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician, Mayor of San Antonio (2014-2017)
DATE OF BIRTH 17th June 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , United States