Ballots Set For Birmingham Municipal Elections

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Friday was the last day for candidates wishing to be on the August 24 ballot in Birmingham's municipal election to register. More than 70 candidates for mayor, Birmingham City Council or the Birmingham Board of Education qualified.

Mayor Randall Woodfin faces seven challengers, which is the city's most crowded race, along with City Council District 8, which also has eight candidates running. District 8 incumbent Steven Hoyt is not running.

The candidates on Birmingham's municipal election ballot:

Mayor

• William A. Bell Sr.
• Cerissa A. Brown
• Napoleon Gonzalez
• Philemon Hill
• Lashunda Scales
• Darryl T. Williams
• Randall Woodfin (Incumbent)
• Chris Woods

City Council

District 1:

• Clinton Woods (Incumbent)

District 2:

• Lawrence Conaway
• Kimberly Jeanty
• Don D. Scott
• Hunter Williams (Incumbent)

District 3:

• Valerie Abbott (Incumbent)
• Joseph Baker III
• Wil Jones
• Alice Speake

District 4:

• Scottie McClaney
• J.T. Moore
• William Parker (Incumbent)
• Qunelius “Cory” Pettway
• Gwendolyn Cook Webb

District 5:

• Richard Franklin
• Darrell O’Quinn (Incumbent)
• Hiram G. Rahim
• Erica Star Robbins
• Roshanique Yvette Taylor

District 6:

• Keith Aaron
• Crystal Smitherman (Incumbent)
• Keith O. Williams

District 7:

• Wardine Alexander (Incumbent)
• La’Toya Lee
• Lonnie Franklin Malone
• Don “Donnie” Stone

District 8:

• Carol Clarke
• Barbara Files-Kennedy
• Lynette Peters
• Celida “Celi” Soto
• Adlai Trone
• Harry “Traveling Shoes” Turner
• D. Denise Webber-Jenkins
• Wanda Wright

District 9:

• Eric Hall
• John Hilliard (Incumbent)
• David Russell
• LaTonya Tate

Board of Education

District 1:

• Sherman Collins Jr.
• Douglas Lee Ragland (Incumbent)
• Jerry Tate

District 2:

• Terri Michal (Incumbent)
• Neonta Williams

District 3:

• Mary D. Boehm (Incumbent)
• Byron “Anti-Charter School” Lagrone

District 4:

• Derek L. Billups
• Daagye Hendricks (Incumbent)

District 5:

• James A. Sullivan
• David Tarell McKinney

District 6:

• Jamaree Collins
• Leticia Watkins
• Yancey Williams Sr.

District 7:

• Linda Roper Richardson
• Walter “Big Walt” Wilson (Incumbent)

District 8:

• Anoinette “Toni” King
• Curtis Tyrone Robinson
• Sonja Smith (Incumbent)
• Antwon Bernard Womack

District 9:

• Le’Darius Hilliard
• Jason Meadows
• Susan Diane Mitchell