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Alex Sink
2nd Chief Financial Officer of Florida
Incumbent
Assumed office January 2, 2007
Preceded by	Tom Gallagher
Personal details
Born	Adelaide Sink (1948-06-05) June 5, 1948 (age 76) Mt. Airy, North Carolina, United States
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Bill McBride (1987-Present)
Residence	Tampa, Florida
Alma mater	Wake Forest University
Profession	banking
Website	myfloridacfo.com

Adelaide "Alex" Sink (born 5 June 1948) is Chief Financial Officer for the state of Florida and is currently a Democratic candidate for Governor of Florida. Sink is also the first female CFO of Florida and, if elected, would be the first female Governor for the state of Florida.

Personal

Sink was raised in Mount Airy, North Carolina. Sink is a graduate of Wake Forest University. After graduating with a degree in mathematics, she taught in West Africa for three years.

Sink is married to Florida attorney and politician Bill McBride who was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Florida in 2002. They have a son, Bert, and a daughter, Lexi.

She is a descendant of the famous conjoined "Siamese Twins", Chang and Eng Bunker.

Career

Sink is a former president of Florida Operations at Bank of America. She was appointed by former Governor Lawton Chiles to the Commission on Government Accountability to the People, and also served on Chiles’ Commission on Education. She was vice-chair of Florida TaxWatch. Sink has also served with the Florida Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, the Beth El Farm Workers Ministry, and as Chairman of the Board of the United Way of Hillsborough County.

Sink was the Democratic candidate for Florida's office of Chief Financial Officer in 2006. She defeated Republican Tom Lee 53.5 percent to 46.5 percent.

2010 Gubernatorial candidate

Heading into the 2010 cycle, Sink was mentioned as a possible candidate for the U.S. Senate or for Governor of Florida. In 2008, Sink stated that she would "assess the landscape after the first of the year, and make a decision then." In January 2009, Sink announced she would not run for either seat, preferring to stand for reelection as CFO.. But the announcement that Gov. Charlie Crist would forgo re-election to run for the Senate seat being vacated by Mel Martinez changed the state's political landscape. On May 13, 2009, Sink announced her intention to run for Governor.

Biography

Florida CFO Alex Sink is using her three decades of business experience to get results for the people of the state, cutting wasteful government spending, cracking down on financial fraud and reforming state-contracting practices to hold government more accountable.

Sink is currently serving her first term as Florida’s CFO, having been elected statewide in 2006 – her first run for public office. As CFO, Sink oversees nearly 3,000 employees and an annual budget of $300 million in the Department of Financial Services. She is also a statewide elected officer of the Florida Cabinet.

For over two years, CFO Sink has been an outspoken watchdog, demanding accountability for Florida’s contracts with private companies – including putting a stop to Project Aspire, an $85 million over-budget and under-performing accounting program she inherited upon taking office. CFO Sink is also working to cut waste in her own department, such as saving taxpayers $2.2 million annually by consolidating consumer-hotline call centers.

CFO Sink stands out as an aggressive consumer advocate, launching initiatives like the Safeguard Our Seniors Task Force, created to protect older Floridians from financial fraud, and Florida’s Housing Help Initiative, which provides assistance to Floridians facing mortgage foreclosure.

Before her election in 2006, Alex Sink was a successful businesswoman, with 26 years of experience in the financial industry, culminating in her leadership of Florida’s largest bank. While establishing herself as a leader in the business community, Sink also used her business skills to help the state, serving as vice chair of Florida TaxWatch and appointed by Governor Chiles to the Commission on Government Accountability to the People.

CFO Sink has worked on behalf of Florida’s children through her service on Governor Chiles’ Commission on Education, the Hillsborough Education Foundation Board of Directors and as chair of Take Stock in Children. Her civic work also includes service in the Florida Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, Junior Achievement of West Central Florida and as chairman of the board of the United Way of Hillsborough County.

CFO Sink grew up on a farm in Mt. Airy, North Carolina, and earned a degree in mathematics from Wake Forest University. She resides in Thonotosassa with her husband, Bill McBride. They are the proud parents of Bert, a student and football player at Stanford University, and Lexi, a student at Wake Forest University.

Electoral history

References

1. FLORIDA'S MOST INFLUENTIAL, Florida Trend (11-01-2004) p.26 ISSN:00154326.
2. Twins' great-granddaughter seeks a different kind of fame, St. Pete Times
3. "2006 Election Results". Florida Department of State. March 1, 2007.
4. http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article784644.ece
5. http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20090116/CAPITOLNEWS/90116013

External links

• Florida Department of Financial Services
• Alex Sink
• Follow the Money - Alex Sink
• Orlando Sentinel blog

v t e Statewide political officials of Florida
U.S. senators	Marco Rubio Rick Scott
State government	Ron DeSantis, Governor Jeanette Nuñez, Lieutenant Governor Ashley Moody, Attorney General Jimmy Patronis, Chief Financial Officer Wilton Simpson, Agriculture Commissioner Cord Byrd, Secretary of State (appointed)
Senate	Ben Albritton, President Jason Brodeur, President pro tempore Jim Boyd, Majority Leader Jason Pizzo, Minority Leader
House	Daniel Perez, Speaker Wyman Duggan, Speaker pro tempore Tyler Sirois, Majority Leader Fentrice Driskell, Minority Leader
Supreme Court (appointed)	Carlos G. Muñiz, Chief Justice Charles Canady Jorge Labarga John D. Couriel Jamie Grosshans Renatha Francis Meredith Sasso, Justices

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