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==College== ==College==
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==Career== ==Career==

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Ivy Ruth Taylor
Mayor of San Antonio
Incumbent
Assumed office
July 22, 2014
Preceded byJulian Castro
Personal details
Born (1970-06-17) June 17, 1970 (age 54)
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Political partyNonpartisan
SpouseRodney Taylor
ChildrenMorgan Taylor
Alma materYale University (A.B., 1992)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MCRP, 1998)
ProfessionUrban planner
WebsiteCity website
Campaign website

Ivy Ruth Taylor (born June 17, 1970) is the current mayor of San Antonio, Texas. She is the first African-American person elected mayor in a city that is majority-Hispanic in the U.S. She is a nonpartisan officeholder. She is also the first African-American to be elected mayor of San Antonio and the second woman to hold the position.

Early life

Taylor's parents moved to New York from Wilmington, North Carolina. Her mother was a member of Pentecostal Holiness church. Her parents did not attend college and they divorced when she was young.

Taylor is a native of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. She told Texas Monthly, “I was born in Brooklyn, but I grew up in Queens”. She attended P.S. 95 in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens.

College

Taylor obtained a bachelor's degree in American Studies in 1992 from Yale University, and a master's degree in City and Regional Planning in 1998 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Taylor was initiated into Delta Sigma Theta during her time at Yale. In 1997, as a graduate student, Taylor participated in a ten-week internship with the San Antonio Affordable Housing Association, a coalition of affordable-housing groups.

Career

In 1998, after graduation, Taylor returned to San Antonio and began working for the City of San Antonio in the Neighborhood Action Department. After six years of working for the City of San Antonio, in August 2004 she went to work for Merced Housing Texas, an affordable housing agency. She also served on the City Planning Commission as a commission member from 2006 to 2008. She has also served on the board of directors for the Urban Renewal Agency (San Antonio Development Agency), and Haven for Hope.

Election history

San Antonio city council

Taylor was first elected to San Antonio City Council in 2009 to represent District 2 on the east side of the city, and was re-elected in 2011 and 2013.

2015 San Antonio mayor's race

Main article: San Antonio mayoral election, 2015

Taylor was initially appointed mayor by the San Antonio City Council to serve in the interim following Julian Castro's departure to serve as the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Obama administration. She successfully won re-election to the position on June 13, 2015.

Former mayor Julian Castro was named in May 2014 to the Obama Cabinet and therefore was obligated to vacate his position as mayor. The charter of San Antonio requires that in the event of a mayoral vacancy, the replacement mayor must be elected by and from the other ten members of the council with a majority of six votes. On July 22, 2014, the members of the San Antonio City Council held a special election to fill the vacant position. After Taylor and fellow councilman Ray Lopez split the vote 5-3 in favor of Taylor, Lopez withdrew from consideration, and Taylor was elected with a 9-0 vote. Once Taylor was elected, Castro immediately resigned as mayor.

Taylor initially said that she would not run for mayor when her interim term expired in 2015, she declared her candidacy for re-election on February 16, 2015. In the San Antonio mayoral election held on May 9, 2015, no candidate received a majority of the vote. A runoff election was held on June 13 between Taylor and her remaining rival, Leticia Van de Putte, a liberal Democratic former member of both the Texas Senate and the Texas House of Representatives. Though Van de Putte narrowly led the field in the first round of balloting, Taylor went on to win, 51.7%–48.3%, and hence retain her position as mayor for a full two-year term. In doing so, Taylor became the first African American person elected mayor in a city that is majority-Hispanic. She is also the second female African American mayor elected in Texas history.

Tenure

In 2013, Taylor had voted against a nondiscrimination ordinance approved by the city council to guarantee homosexual rights. She also helped to kill a streetcar system for downtown San Antonio, which many fiscal conservatives had opposed.

Personal life

Taylor is married to Rodney Taylor, who operates a bail bonds business in San Antonio, and has one daughter, Morgan. They live in the Dignowity Hill neighborhood on the east side of San Antonio.

Electoral history

Ivy Taylor electoral history

San Antonio mayoral election, 2015

First round

On May 9, 2015, the election for mayor was held. None of the leading candidates received more than 50% of the vote and as a result, a runoff election was scheduled for Saturday, June 13, 2015 between the top two vote getters.

San Antonio Mayor, 2015
Regular election, May 9, 2015
Candidate Votes % ±
✓ Leticia Van de Putte 25,982 30.43%
✓ Ivy Taylor 24,245 28.40%
Mike Villarreal 22,246 26.06%
Tommy Adkisson 8,344 9.77%
Paul Martinez 1,877 2.20%
Cynthia Brehm 1,497 1.75%
Douglas Emmett 221 0.26%
Michael "Commander" Idrogo 221 0.26%
Cynthia Cavazos 201 0.24%
Raymond Zavala 196 0.23%
Rhett Smith 111 0.13%
Julie Iris Oldham (Mama Bexar) 103 0.12%
Gerard Ponce 97 0.11%
Pogo Mochello Reese 29 0.03%
Turnout 85,370 11.89%*

* Vote percentage include all of Bexar County with a total of 12,316 either voting in another municipal election or casting no ballot for San Antonio mayor.

Runoff

More people voted in the runoff election for mayor than did in the regular election on May 9, 2015. Taylor found most of her support from conservatives within the city who typically reside on the north side and from her former city council district on the east side. Meanwhile, Van de Putte performed best on the the west and south sides of town.

San Antonio Mayor, 2015
Runoff election June 13, 2015
Candidate Votes % ±
✓ Ivy Taylor 50,659 51.70%
Leticia Van de Putte 47,328 48.30%
Turnout 97,987 14.12%

References

  1. ^ Ivy Taylor "Ivy Taylor: Vice President/Director of Resident Services at Merced Housing Texas". LinkedIn. Mountain View, California. Retrieved June 24, 2015. {{cite news}}: Check |url= value (help)
  2. ^ "Application for a place on the City of San Antonio General Election Ballot" (PDF). City of San Antonio. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  3. ^ Svitek, Patrick (June 14, 2015). "Taylor's San Antonio Win a Wake-Up Call for Democrats". Texas Tribune. Austin, Texas. Retrieved June 24, 2015. The outcome was also historic: Taylor became the first black person elected mayor in a city that is majority-Hispanic.
  4. ^ Rivard, Robert (July 30, 2014). "San Antonio's New Mayor, Ivy Taylor". therivardreport.com. Rivard Report. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
  5. ^ Russell, Jan Jarboe (January 2015). "The Anti-Castro". Texas Monthly. Austin, Texas. Retrieved June 24, 2015. When Julián Castro resigned as mayor last July to become U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the city council chose Taylor to serve out his term. In that moment, Taylor made history as San Antonio became the largest city in the United States ever to have a black, female mayor. Her appointment defied the demographics of the city, which is overwhelmingly Latino and only 7 percent black.
  6. ^ Baugh, Josh (July 22, 2014). "San Antonio chooses Ivy Taylor as new mayor". San Antonio Express-News. Hearst Corporation. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
  7. ^ "Mayor Ivy R. Taylor". City of San Antonio. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  8. ^ "Things to know about Ivy Taylor". San Antonio Express-News. Hearst Corporation. June 24, 2015. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  9. ^ "Ivy Taylor Elected Mayor of San Antonio in Runoff". ABC News. June 14, 2015. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  10. Superville, Darlene (May 23, 2014). "Obama to announce Julian Castro for housing secretary post". PBS. Associated Press. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
  11. "Mayor Castro Goes to Washington". San Antonio magazine. July 22, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  12. Baker, Jeremy (July 22, 2014). "How Tuesday's interim mayoral vote will work". KENS. Gannett Company. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
  13. ^ Baugh, Josh (July 22, 2014). "Ivy Taylor becomes mayor". San Antonio Express-News. Hearst Corporation. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
  14. Baugh, Josh (February 16, 2015). "Mayor Ivy Taylor declares candidacy". San Antonio Express-News. Hearst Corporation. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  15. "KENS5 Election Results". KENS. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
  16. "BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS Unofficial Results RUNOFF ELECTION". Bexar County Elections Office. San Antonio, Texas. June 13, 2015. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  17. Garcia, Juan A. (July 25, 2014). "My Neighbor, Now My Mayor, Ivy Taylor". Rivard Report. San Antonio, Texas. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  18. "San Antonio Mayor". Kens 5. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
  19. "Taylor Becomes San Antonio's First Elected Black Mayor". Rivard Report. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
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