Jere Wood

Jere Wood

Infobox Mayor


order = Mayor of Roswell, Georgia
name = Jere Wood
residence = Roswell, Georgia
term_start = January 1, 1997
term_end =present
predecessor = W. L. "Pug" Mabry
successor =Incumbent
party = Republican
profession = Attorney
spouse = Judie Raiford
alma_mater = University of Georgia
website = http://www.jerewood.com

Jere Wood is the Republican mayor of Roswell, Georgia and as of 2007 is currently serving his third consecutive term. Mayor Wood defeated Democrat "Pug" Mabry, who served as mayor for over thirty years, in the election of 1997. Wood ran unchallenged and secured re-election in 2001. Wood is the son of Roy "Splinter" Wood, a Democrat, who was Undersecretary of the United States Department of the Interior (DOI) during the Carter Administration in the 1970s. Wood won the mayor's race again in the election held in November of 2005. Wood is married to Judie Raiford, an award-winning artist and owner of Raiford Gallery on historic downtown Roswell's Canton Street. Raiford's father was Dr. Morgan Raiford, founder of The Atlanta Eye Clinic in the 1960s.

Mayor Wood is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, [cite web| url=http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/html/about/members.shtml| title=Mayors Against Illegal Guns: Coalition Members Retrieved on June 12, 2007] ,an organization formed in 2006 and co-chaired by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston mayor Thomas Menino.

References

External links

* [http://www.jerewood.com Official site]
* [http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org Mayors Against Illegal Guns homepage]

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