Ivy Taylor
| Ivy Taylor | |
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| Mayor of San Antonio | |
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Assumed office July 22, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Julian Castro |
| Member of the San Antonio City Council from District 2 | |
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In office 2009–2014 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 17, 1970 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party |
Independent (as officeholder) Democratic (as registered member) |
| Spouse(s) | Rodney Taylor |
| Children | Morgan Taylor |
| Alma mater |
Yale University (A.B., 1992) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MCRP, 1998) |
| Profession | Urban planner |
| Religion | Baptist |
| Website |
City website Campaign website |
Ivy Ruth Taylor (born June 17, 1970) is an American politician who currently serves as the mayor of San Antonio, Texas. She is a nonpartisan officeholder, although she is registered as a Democrat. She is also the first African American to be elected mayor of San Antonio and only the second woman in the position. In addition, Taylor is the first female African American mayor of a city with a population of more than one million, making San Antonio the largest city in the United States to have a female African-American mayor.
Taylor's parents moved to New York City from Wilmington, North Carolina. Her mother was a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Her parents did not attend college and divorced when she was young.
Taylor was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York. She told Texas Monthly, “I was born in Brooklyn, but I grew up in Queens”. She attended Public School 95 (Eastwood) in the Jamaica neighborhood.
Taylor obtained a bachelor's degree in American Studies in 1992 from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and a master's degree in City and Regional Planning in 1998 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Taylor was initiated into Delta Sigma Theta during her time at Yale. In 1997, as a graduate student, Taylor participated in a ten-week internship with the San Antonio Affordable Housing Association, a coalition of affordable-housing groups.
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