Community hub
Recent from talks
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
Lenny Curry
Leonard Boyd Curry (born July 19, 1970) is an American politician, accountant, and businessman who served as the 8th mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, from 2015 to 2023 after defeating then-incumbent Alvin Brown in the city's 2015 mayoral election. He was re-elected in 2019. A Republican, Curry formerly served as chairman of the Republican Party of Florida and co-founded the professional services firm ICX Group.
Curry was born in Key West to parents Linda and Roy Curry. He later grew up in Middleburg, Florida and graduated from Middleburg High School. Curry began his higher education at St. Johns River Community College, then transferred to the University of Florida and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in accounting.
From 1994 to 2002, he practiced as a certified public accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In 2002, he co‐founded a Jacksonville-based professional services firm, ICX Group Inc., providing finance and accounting consulting, executive recruiting, and staffing services.
On June 3, 2014, Curry filed to run in the Jacksonville mayoral election in 2015. He said he decided to enter the race because beginning in late 2012 and early 2013, he began hearing about leadership troubles under incumbent Democratic mayor Alvin Brown.
In the blanket primary election on March 24, 2015, Curry received 38.40% of votes while Mayor Brown received 42.64% of the votes out of a field of other candidates, thus necessitating a runoff election between them as the top two vote receivers. Curry defeated Brown in the runoff election on May 19, 2015 with 51.31% of the vote to Brown's 48.69%.
On March 19, 2019, Curry was re-elected to a second term as mayor of Jacksonville in the 2019 election. His major competitor was Anna Brosche, who earned 24% of the vote, while Curry got 58%. He won a majority of the votes in the blanket primary, and was therefore re-elected without a runoff election.
Curry had co-chaired the Jacksonville host committee for the 2020 Republican National Convention, which was, for a period, planned to be held in Jacksonville.
Jacksonville/Duval County detected its first case of Covid-19 on March 12, 2020. On June 22, Curry stated that he would not implement a mask mandate in the city of Jacksonville, however, one week later on June 29, 2020 he did implement a mandate. The city's mask mandate was in place for nearly a year until it was lifted by Curry on March 26, 2021. Curry also implemented a work from home order on March 23, 2020. The work from home order was lifted only a few months later on May 12, 2020. In a poll conducted in 2020, Curry was given a 70% approval rating by Florida voters for his handling of the pandemic response. In 2021, again amid rising case numbers, Curry refused to implement a mask mandate and instead encouraged residents to get the new Covid-19 vaccine to control the spread. Curry himself tested positive for Covid-19 on January 4, 2022, despite being vaccinated.
Hub AI
Lenny Curry AI simulator
(@Lenny Curry_simulator)
Lenny Curry
Leonard Boyd Curry (born July 19, 1970) is an American politician, accountant, and businessman who served as the 8th mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, from 2015 to 2023 after defeating then-incumbent Alvin Brown in the city's 2015 mayoral election. He was re-elected in 2019. A Republican, Curry formerly served as chairman of the Republican Party of Florida and co-founded the professional services firm ICX Group.
Curry was born in Key West to parents Linda and Roy Curry. He later grew up in Middleburg, Florida and graduated from Middleburg High School. Curry began his higher education at St. Johns River Community College, then transferred to the University of Florida and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in accounting.
From 1994 to 2002, he practiced as a certified public accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In 2002, he co‐founded a Jacksonville-based professional services firm, ICX Group Inc., providing finance and accounting consulting, executive recruiting, and staffing services.
On June 3, 2014, Curry filed to run in the Jacksonville mayoral election in 2015. He said he decided to enter the race because beginning in late 2012 and early 2013, he began hearing about leadership troubles under incumbent Democratic mayor Alvin Brown.
In the blanket primary election on March 24, 2015, Curry received 38.40% of votes while Mayor Brown received 42.64% of the votes out of a field of other candidates, thus necessitating a runoff election between them as the top two vote receivers. Curry defeated Brown in the runoff election on May 19, 2015 with 51.31% of the vote to Brown's 48.69%.
On March 19, 2019, Curry was re-elected to a second term as mayor of Jacksonville in the 2019 election. His major competitor was Anna Brosche, who earned 24% of the vote, while Curry got 58%. He won a majority of the votes in the blanket primary, and was therefore re-elected without a runoff election.
Curry had co-chaired the Jacksonville host committee for the 2020 Republican National Convention, which was, for a period, planned to be held in Jacksonville.
Jacksonville/Duval County detected its first case of Covid-19 on March 12, 2020. On June 22, Curry stated that he would not implement a mask mandate in the city of Jacksonville, however, one week later on June 29, 2020 he did implement a mandate. The city's mask mandate was in place for nearly a year until it was lifted by Curry on March 26, 2021. Curry also implemented a work from home order on March 23, 2020. The work from home order was lifted only a few months later on May 12, 2020. In a poll conducted in 2020, Curry was given a 70% approval rating by Florida voters for his handling of the pandemic response. In 2021, again amid rising case numbers, Curry refused to implement a mask mandate and instead encouraged residents to get the new Covid-19 vaccine to control the spread. Curry himself tested positive for Covid-19 on January 4, 2022, despite being vaccinated.