Michael Tubbs
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Mayor Michael Tubbs |
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Assumed office January 1, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Anthony Silva |
| Member of the Stockton City Council for the 6th District | |
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In office January 8, 2013 – January 1, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Dale Fritchen |
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| Born | 2 August 1990 |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Occupation | Mayor of the City of |
| Website | mdtubbs |
Michael Tubbs (born 2 August 1990) is an American politician, currently the Mayor of . Elected as mayor in 2016 at age 26, he is the youngest mayor in Stockton's history, and its first African-American mayor.
Tubbs was born in south Stockton and grew up in poverty. His mother, Racole Dixon, was a teenager at the time of his birth, and his father, also named Michael Tubbs, is serving a life sentence in prison for kidnapping, drug possession and robbery. Tubbs has a younger brother named Drevonte.
Tubbs attended Hamilton Middle School. In 2007, while a student at , Tubbs won an essay contest sponsored by Alice Walker. His essay about overcoming the mistakes his parents had made was published in the San Francisco Chronicle. He criticized his father's "scapegoat mentality" and praised his mother for overcoming adversity.
Tubbs graduated with the International Baccalaureate diploma from Franklin High School in 2008. That July, Tubbs was a member of a team of three San Joaquin County teenagers who won a national debate competition in Cincinnati sponsored by the NAACP. They advocated for universal health care, and the debate was followed by a speech by then presidential candidate Barack Obama.
He then attended Stanford University on a need-based scholarship, graduating in 2012 with a BA in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and a Master's degree in Policy, Leadership and Organization Studies. As an undergraduate, he received a Truman Scholarship, and was the joint winner of the university's Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel award for "distinctive and exceptional contributions to...the quality of student life." During his time at Stanford, he also served as President of the school's NAACP, and interned at the White House.
Tubbs was arrested for driving under the influence in 2014. Tubbs apologized for what he called a "poor decision to drive when I should not have" He pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges.
Tubbs is engaged to Anna Malaika Nti-Asare. The couple met at Stanford University and plan to marry in December, 2017. After graduating from Stanford in 2014, as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and the University of Cambridge with her master's degree in multidisciplinary gender studies in 2015, Nti-Asare spent two years teaching at Aspire Langston Hughes Academy in Stockton. She is now a Gates Cambridge Scholar and a PhD student in education at the University of Cambridge.
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