Voter Guide: Today’s Birmingham municipal election

By Virginia Martin, Birmingham Watch

BIRMINGHAM –Birmingham city voters go to the polls today to select a mayor and fill all nine City Council seats and all nine city Board of Education seats. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

You can check your polling place and voter registration through links in the BirminghamWatch city Voter Guide below. The guide also gives you profiles on each of the 88 candidates on the ballot, their histories and the issues that drove them to run, as well as campaign contributor lists, a sample ballot and other voter tools.

Click here to view the Voter Guide.

Mayoral Election

• Patricia Bell

• William A. Bell Sr.

• Randy Davis

• Ervin Philemon Hill II

• Trudy Hunter

• Carl “Jr.” Jackson

• Lanny E. Jackson

• Donald T. Lomax

• Frank James Matthews

• Fernandez “Brother Sims” Sims

• Randall Woodfin

• Chris Woods

City Council Elections

• CITY COUNCIL – DISTRICT 1

  Sherman Collins Jr.

  Lashunda Scales

  DISTRICT MAP, JOB DESCRIPTION

• CITY COUNCIL – DISTRICT 2

  Lawrence Conaway

  Kimberly D. Jeanty

  Stephen L. Murphy

  Kim Rafferty

  Deanna “Dee” Reed

  Jordan Thompson

  Hunter Williams

  Tyrone Williams Sr.

  DISTRICT MAP, JOB DESCRIPTION

• CITY COUNCIL – DISTRICT 3

  Valerie A. Abbott

  Rowan Henderson

  Ryan Jones

  JOB DESCRIPTION, DISTRICT MAP

• CITY COUNCIL – DISTRICT 4

  Mary Jean LaMay

  William Parker

  Qunelius Pettway

  Sergio Williams

  DISTRICT MAP, JOB DESCRIPTION

• CITY COUNCIL – DISTRICT 5

  Johnathan F. Austin

  Dorothea Crosby

  Chris Davis

  Darrell O’Quinn

  Erica Robbins

  Jeremy Schatz

  Robert Walker

  JOB DESCRIPTION, DISTRICT MAP

• CITY COUNCIL – DISTRICT 6

  Keith Mims

  Sheila Tyson

  Keith Williams

  DISTRICT MAP, JOB DESCRIPTION

• CITY COUNCIL – DISTRICT 7

  Titus Battle

  Hosea Lewis

  Lonnie Malone

  James “Jay” Roberson Jr.

  Jeffery Rowser

  JOB DESCRIPTION AND DISTRICT MAP

• CITY COUNCIL – DISTRICT 8

  Steven Hoyt

  Lynette Peters

  Gerri Robinson

  Adlai Trone

  JOB DESCRIPTION, DISTRICT MAPS

• CITY COUNCIL – DISTRICT 9

  Angene Coleman

  Eric Hall

  John Hilliard

  Wendell Major

  Roderick Royal

  David Russell

  Reginald Swanson

  James Williams Jr.

  JOB DESCRIPTION, DISTRICT MAPS

City School Board Elections

• CITY SCHOOL BOARD – DISTRICT 1

  Bennie M. Holmes

  Douglas Lee Ragland

  Keith Rice

  Cedric Small

  Jerry Tate

  JOB DESCRIPTION, DISTRICT MAP

• CITY SCHOOL BOARD – DISTRICT 2

  Brandon McCray

  Terri Michal

  JOB DESCRIPTION, DISTRICT MAP

• CITY SCHOOL BOARD – DISTRICT 3

  Mary Drennen Boehm

  Larry J. Contri

  JOB DESCRIPTION, DISTRICT MAP

• CITY SCHOOL BOARD – DISTRICT 4

  Amber Courtney

  Daagye Hendricks

  Edward Maddox

  JOB DESCRIPTION, DISTRICT MAP

• CITY SCHOOL BOARD – DISTRICT 5

  Buford L. Burks

  Eloise Manning Crenshaw

  Martha McDowell

  David T. McKinney

  Michael “Mickey” Millsap

  Andrea D. Mitchell

  Aaisha Muhammad

  Angela Scoggins-Watson

  JOB DESCRIPTION, DISTRICT MAP

• CITY SCHOOL BOARD – DISTRICT 6

  Cheri A. Gardner

  Ervin Philemon Hill Sr.

  JOB DESCRIPTION, DISTRICT MAP

• CITY SCHOOL BOARD – DISTRICT 7

  Wardine Towers Alexander

  Patricia Spigner McAdory

  Walter “Big Walt” Wilson

  JOB DESCRIPTION, DISTRICT MAP

• CITY SCHOOL BOARD – DISTRICT 8

  Patricia Bozeman-Henderson

  D. Tyrone Silmon

  Sonja Q. Smith

  Antwon Womack

  JOB DESCRIPTION, DISTRICT MAP

• CITY SCHOOL BOARD – DISTRICT 9

  Sandra Kelly Brown

  Lawrence Jackson

  JOB DESCRIPTION, DISTRICT MAPS

Publisher’s Note -The Trussville Tribune partners with Birmingham Watch to provide the non-partisan Voter Guide for all elections in the metro Birmingham area.