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Jerry L. Demings (born June 12, 1959) is an American politician and former law enforcement officer serving as Mayor of Orange County, Florida since 2018. [1] A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as Sheriff of Orange County, Florida from 2009 to 2018, and served as Chief of the Orlando Police Department and Director of Public Safety for Orange County, Florida.
The Board of County Commissioners (BCC) is the county commission of Orange County, Florida. The board has seven seats: six seats for the county commissioners for each of six districts and one seat for the mayor of Orange County .
The Orange County mayor's post is the most powerful elected office in Central Florida. The current mayor of Orange County is Jerry Demings . Demings assumed office on December 4, 2018 and was subsequently re-elected in 2022 .
Gov. Ron DeSantis has a new job for the man who has led Walt Disney World's government since his allies took it over — elections supervisor in Orange County, long one of Florida's most reliable ...
Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) is the public school district for Orange County, Florida. It is based in the Ronald Blocker Educational Leadership Center in downtown Orlando . [ 2 ] OCPS is the eighth-largest school district in the United States and the fourth-largest in Florida. [ 3 ]
Orange County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census , the county had a population of 1,429,908, making it the fifth-most populous county in Florida and the 28th-most populous county in the United States .
Many South Florida residents remember with grief a day in the early '00s when the government came for their citrus trees. ... we're taking the trees," one Orange County resident recalled.
The 2022 Orange County, Florida, mayoral election was held on August 23, 2022, to elect the mayor of Orange County, Florida. [1] Incumbent Jerry Demings was first elected in 2018, [2] and was re-elected in 2022 with 60.05%. Since Demings won a majority in the first round, a runoff election was not needed. [1] [3]