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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Glenda E. Hood |
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Orlando, Florida , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
March 10, 1950
(74 years)
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| Contributor | Wishful Thinking |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | Governor Jeb Bush appointed Orlando Mayor Glenda Hood as Secretary of State effective February 2003. She leads the Department of State as it transitions from an elected constitutional office to an appointed Governor�s agency. As Secretary of State she is responsible for the Department�s Division of Administrative Services, Division of Corporations, Division of Cultural Affairs, Division of Elections, Division of Historical Resources, and the Division of Library and Information Services. In addition, the Secretary of State is Florida�s chief elections officer and chief cultural officer.
Prior to her appointment as Secretary of State, Glenda Hood was elected the first female Mayor of the City of Orlando in 1992 and served three terms. In the fall of 2001, Governor Jeb Bush appointed then Mayor Hood as chair of Florida�s Domestic Security Advisory Panel, a core group of leaders from around the state, to advise him on Florida�s security issues. In early 2002, she invited Florida mayors to join Governor Bush, then Governor Tom Ridge and current Secretary of Homeland Security, along with the Florida Domestic Security Advisory Panel, for a Statewide Security Summit.
In April 2002, President Bush commended Hood for establishing a Citizen Corps, a new initiative that creates opportunities for individuals to volunteer for disaster preparedness programs in their communities.
Before becoming Mayor in 1992, Secretary Hood served as an Orlando City Council member and was president of her own public relations firm. She has served as past president of the National League of Cities, the Florida League of Cities and the Florida Chamber of Commerce. Secretary Hood�s administration reflects a vision for Florida shaped by her years as a businesswoman, her involvement in community work as well as her leadership positions on advisory boards at the national, state and local levels.
An Orlando native and fourth generation Floridian, Secretary Hood graduated from Orlando�s Oak Ridge High School and Rollins College, where she obtained a bachelor�s degree in Spanish. She has also completed the Executive Program at Harvard�s Kennedy School of Government.
Secretary Hood and her husband Charlie have been married for 30 years and are active members of St. Michael�s Episcopal Church. They are the parents of three grown children (Monty, Ellis and Evans) and are proud grandparents to Emma Caroline Hood, Charles Montgomery Hood V, Cole Evans Hood, and William Richard Searl.
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