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Alachua County Democratic Party Officers2021-2025 |
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J. MaggioChairBrief Bio:Dr. J. Maggio was born in Brooklyn, NY and is a life-long Democrat. He has lived in Gainesville since 1997. He earned his JD and PhD in political science from the University of Florida. He works as a professor of political science at St Johns River State College in Palatka, where he also chaired the effort to form a faculty union. As a member of the Florida Bar Association, over the past few years J mostly used his legal background as a voter protection attorney for the FDP. He was very active throughout north Florida during the 2018 election and recount, and he was the FDP’s co-lead attorney for Alachua County voter protection during the 2020 election. He was elected Chair of the Alachua County DEC in December 2020. J has published several scholarly articles on political theory, and he enjoys artsy movies and TV, literary and genre fiction, tons of music, and playing guitar. J also loves baseball, and he enjoys losing in fantasy baseball every year. To contact you can email chair@alachuadems.org |
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Iris BurkeVice-ChairBrief Bio:I am a retired certified mediator, and a retired (emeritus) law teacher. I specialized in teaching professional skills and clinical legal education, supervising law students who were providing legal services to clients from underserved communities. In the My most important goals for the DEC are to grow and diversify our membership, to connect closely to community issues year-round, and to help ensure active participation in our committees, clubs and caucuses. Prior to becoming DEC Vice-Chair, I was Chair of the DEC Policy and Bylaws Committee which led a successful To contact you can email vicechair@alachuadems.org |
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Richard PowellSecretaryBrief Bio:I am a retired independent school teacher and administrator. My teaching fields were U. S. History and American Government. I came to Oak Hall School in 1995 with my wife Ann, and worked there for 19 years. For 13 of those years, I was the Upper School Head and Director of College Counseling. Prior to coming to Oak Hall, I worked in five other independent schools. Perhaps the most interesting was a boarding school in Arizona which was on a 40,000 acre working cattle ranch. While there, I once rode a mule 26 miles across the High Sonoran Desert to get to a camping site. To contact you can email secretary@alachuadems.org |
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Jocelyn PeskinTreasurerBrief Bio:*In The Works* To contact you can email treasurer@alachuadems.org |
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Evelyn FoxxState CommitteewomanBrief Bio:2008/2012 Elected Delegate to the Nat’l DNC Convention in Denver,Co and Charlotte, NC 1995 to Current Elected Precinct Person 2012 Alachua County Democrat of the Year Community Service and Boards Lawton Chiles Gala Chair (10yrs) Vice Chair of the ACDC(11yrs) Current President of Alachua Co. Branch of the NAACP To contact you can email committeewoman@alachuadems.org |
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Samuel McKee IIIState CommitteemanBrief Bio:Sam McKee is a democratic socialist and Florida native who has lived in Alachua County since 2016. He first started volunteering for campaigns during the ’08 primary and general elections in support of Barack Obama. In 2020 he was inspired through the Bernie Sanders campaign to officially join his county’s DEC as a Precinct Leader. In addition to running in his own precinct, he recruited over 35 new Precinct Leader candidates across Alachua County. He believes in a politics that builds power through grassroots organizing and improving the material conditions of those who need it most. He wants to help continue the work of making the Democratic Party more people-powered and guided by justice. He currently serves as one of Alachua County’s two State Committeepeople. Pronouns: he/him. To contact you can email committeeman@alachuadems.org |