Kay Ivey

Gov. Kay Ivey is the 54th governor of the state of Alabama. After graduating from Auburn University in 1967, Ivey worked as a high school teacher and as a bank officer at the Merchants National Bank of Mobile. She served as reading clerk of the Alabama House of Representatives under Speaker Joseph C. McCorquodale and as assistant director of the Alabama Development Office, where she worked to spur job creation and economic development across the state.

Ivey was elected state treasurer in 2002 and was re-elected in 2006. As treasurer, Ivey was committed to making the office more open, transparent, and efficient.

She was elected lieutenant governor in 2010, becoming the first Republican woman to hold the office in Alabama’s history.

Ivey is a member of the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, the Montgomery Rotary Club, and the Board of Directors of the Montgomery YMCA. She is also the first Girls State alumnus to be elected to an Alabama Constitutional Office.