Steve Arnold (Mayor)

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Stephen Lloyd Arnold (called Steve Arnold ; born April 14, 1949 in Springfield , Massachusetts ) is an American politician. He is Mayor of Fitchburg , Wisconsin .

Life

Steve Arnold studied at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , where he received a bachelor's degree in science in 1971 and a master's degree in environmental engineering in 1972 . His bachelor thesis was entitled "Modern Pollen in the Waters of the Chesapeake Bay : A Preliminary Inquiry". In 1978 he received his doctorate from Cornell University in Ithaca , New York on the subject of "Field and simulation studies of the population dynamics of Sepedon fuscipennis (Diptera: Sciomyzidae )".

From 1977 to 1981 he was a professor of aquatic ecology and statistics at the State University of New York at Brockport. There he was also responsible for the development of Minitab , a statistical software. From Brockport, he moved to the Minitab team at Pennsylvania State University . In 1983 he moved to Madison , Wisconsin, and founded one of the two successor companies to the Minitab program. From 2006 to 2011 he was the head of information technology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison .

Steve Arnold is married with two daughters and five grandchildren.

Political career

Arnold had been Alderman in Fitchburg since 2005. He won the mayoral election in Fitchburg in April 2015 with 50.7 percent of the valid votes against the incumbent since 2011 Shawn Pfaff .

Arnold is a supporter of New Urbanism . He is a member of the Democratic Party and the Wisconsin Green Party .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conferring of Degrees of the Johns Hopkins University of May 28, 1972, page 54 ( PDF , English)
  2. ↑ Steve Arnold wins Fitchburg mayoral race, Paul Esser wins in Sun Prairie . Article by Rob Schultz, April 8, 2015, in the Wisconsin State Journal
  3. ↑ Election results of the mayoral election in Fitchburg in spring 2015 (English)
  4. ↑ Article about Steve Arnold on the Green Party website ( Memento from July 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnold, Stephen Lloyd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Springfield, Massachusetts