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Jason Bellamy-Fults
Democratic
- Work
- Academic technology staff, University of Florida (Gainesville); former adult education instructor (Santa Fe College, IBEW apprenticeship) and IBEW Local 1205 union electrician
Jason Bellamy-Fults is a Berea College graduate who held a Watson Fellowship and a student Fulbright fellowship before returning to Florida in 2008. He worked as a union electrician with IBEW Local 1205 at power plants, mines, mills and other industrial sites, then taught adult education at Santa Fe College and in the IBEW apprenticeship program; he later earned a master's degree in education from the University of Florida, where he now works in academic technology. He has worked with the Alachua County nonprofit Community Weatherization Coalition.
Sources for Bellamy-Fults
- About Jason (Jason Bellamy-Fults campaign website, Facts summarized from a public page (not copied))
Jennifer Bradley
RepublicanIncumbent
- In office now
- State Senator, District 6 (since 2020)
Jennifer Bradley has served as State Senator for District 6 in the Florida Legislature since 2020, a district that includes all or part of Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Gilchrist, Union and Alachua counties. Official legislature records list the occupation as Attorney.
Bradley's committees
- Regulated Industries (Chair)
- Appropriations Committee on Higher Education (Vice Chair)
- Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education
- Criminal Justice
- Ethics and Elections
- Fiscal Policy
- Rules
- Joint Committee on Public Counsel Oversight (Alternating Chair)
- Work
- Psychiatrist (partially retired); clinical associate professor, University of Florida College of Medicine (Gainesville area)
Joseph Thornton is a physician (M.D., University of Texas medical school, San Antonio) who has taught at the University of Florida College of Medicine since 2010. He previously served as clinical executive director of the North Florida Evaluation and Treatment Center (2003-2010), as medical executive director at Union Correctional Institution and as associate chief of staff for mental health at the North Florida VA, and founded the Alachua Area Medical Reserve Corps.