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Kay Ellen Ivey (born October 15, 1944) is the 38th Alabama State Treasurer. She is a Republican. Ivey defeated Stephen Black, grandson of former United States Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, in the 2002 general election, by a margin of 52-48%. She was the first Republican to be elected State Treasurer since Reconstruction. In 2006, Ivey was re-elected by a 60-40% margin, gaining the most votes of any statewide Republican candidate that year, including Governor Bob Riley. Under the Alabama Constitution, Ivey will not be eligible to seek re-election to a third term in 2010. On June 24, 2009, Ivey officially announced her candidacy for governor at a series of events in Montgomery, Birmingham, Huntsville and Mobile, Alabama. Ivey grew up in Camden, Alabama. She graduated from Auburn University, and worked in education, banking and government before winning her current post. She was Director of Government Affairs and Communications for the Alabama Commission on Higher Education from 1985 until 1998.

One of Ivey's duties as State Treasurer is administration of the state's Wallace-Folsom Prepaid Affordable College Tuition Program. Ivey has made a regular practice of extending deposit deadlines and otherwise improving access to the program. One of Ivey's duties as State Treasurer is administration of the state's Wallace-Folsom Prepaid Affordable College Tuition Program. Ivey has made a regular practice of extending deposit deadlines and otherwise improving access to the program. During the two years before Ivey took office as Treasurer, the program had -13.5% return in 2001 and -10.12% in 2002. The Wallace-Folsom PACT fund grew by +17.25% in 2003, +9.92% in 2004, +10.98% in 2005, +9.98% in 2006 and +15.48% in 2007. (9)

Ivey criticized Rep. Parker Griffith's party switch. She told political expediency is an insult to the workers who help candidates get elected, and political self-preservation isn't a virtue.

Notes

1. "Ivey hits Parker Griffith on switch to GOP". WRCB-TV. MONTGOMERY, Ala. The Associated Press. December 24, 2009.

External links

• Kay Ivey for Governor 2010
• Draft Kay Ivey for Alabama Governor
• Kay Ivey Biography at the Alabama Department of Archives and History
• Alabama State Treasury Official Website

• State treasurers of the United States
• Auburn University alumni
• 1944 births
• Living people
• Alabama Republicans
• Women in Alabama politics