Mike Duggan
| Mike Duggan | |
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| 75th Mayor of Detroit | |
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Assumed office January 1, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Dave Bing |
| Wayne County Prosecutor | |
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In office January 1, 2001 – January 6, 2004 |
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| Preceded by | John O'Hair |
| Succeeded by | Kym Worthy |
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| Born |
Michael Edward Duggan July 15, 1958 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | (Mary) Lori Maher |
| Children | Mary (Michael) Eddie Carolyn Patrick |
| Parents | Patrick Duggan |
| Education |
University of Michigan University of Michigan Law School |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | www |
Michael Edward "Mike" Duggan (born July 15, 1958) is an American attorney, prosecutor, and businessman, currently serving as mayor of Detroit, Michigan. He was elected mayor in 2013, receiving national attention in part because he is the first white mayor of the majority-black city since Roman Gribbs' tenure in the early 1970s, when Detroit's population still had a white majority. He received 52% of the primary vote as a write-in candidate, then 55% of the vote in the mayoral run-off in November 2013.
Duggan graduated from Detroit Catholic Central High School. He then received a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1980, followed by a J.D. degree from its law school in 1983. A Democrat, Duggan was an appointed and elected official in Wayne County, Michigan beginning in 1986 as Wayne County's assistant corporation counsel. He was deputy County Executive from 1987 to 2001 under Edward H. McNamara and was elected prosecutor in 2000.
Beginning in 2004, Duggan was president and CEO of the Detroit Medical Center (DMC). He was in this position when the formerly nonprofit DMC was sold to publicly traded Vanguard Health Systems in 2010.
He resigned his position at the DMC in 2012 and moved from the suburb of Livonia to the city of Detroit, to run for the office of mayor. However, he failed to qualify for the ballot because in turning in his petition ahead of the filing deadline, it became a filing less than a year after establishing residency in the city; if he had waited two more weeks to file, which was still in time for the filing deadline, he would have qualified. He mounted a write-in campaign, receiving enough votes in the August primary election for his name to be placed on the ballot for the general election in November, along with second-place finisher Benny Napoleon.
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