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href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C_%D8%A2%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C" title="کی آیوی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="کی آیوی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ivey" title="Kay Ivey – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Kay Ivey" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ivey" title="Kay Ivey – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Kay Ivey" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Iveyov%C3%A1" title="Kay Iveyová – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Kay Iveyová" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ivey" title="Kay Ivey – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Kay Ivey" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ivey" title="Kay Ivey – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Kay Ivey" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%AD%CE%B9_%CE%86%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%B9" title="Κέι Άιβι – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Κέι Άιβι" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ivey" title="Kay Ivey – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Kay Ivey" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C_%D8%A2%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C" title="کی آیوی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کی آیوی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ivey" title="Kay Ivey – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Kay Ivey" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BC%80%EC%9D%B4_%EC%95%84%EC%9D%B4%EB%B9%84" title="케이 아이비 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="케이 아이비" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%94%D5%A5%D5%B5_%D4%B1%D5%B5%D5%BE%D5%AB" title="Քեյ Այվի – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Քեյ Այվի" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ivey" title="Kay Ivey – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Kay Ivey" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ivey" title="Kay Ivey – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Kay Ivey" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%99_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%91%D7%99" title="קיי אייבי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="קיי אייבי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%94%E1%83%98_%E1%83%90%E1%83%98%E1%83%95%E1%83%98" title="კეი აივი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="კეი აივი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ivey" title="Kay Ivey – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Kay Ivey" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%A2%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%89" title="كاى آيفى – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="كاى آيفى" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ivey" title="Kay Ivey – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Kay Ivey" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC" title="ケイ・アイヴィー – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ケイ・アイヴィー" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ivey" title="Kay Ivey – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Kay Ivey" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ivey" title="Kay Ivey – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Kay Ivey" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ivey" title="Kay Ivey – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Kay Ivey" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ivey" title="Kay Ivey – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Kay Ivey" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B9%D0%B2%D0%B8,_%D0%9A%D1%8D%D0%B9" title="Айви, Кэй – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Айви, Кэй" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ivey" title="Kay Ivey – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Kay Ivey" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ivey" title="Kay Ivey – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Kay Ivey" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Governor_Kay_Ivey_2017_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Governor_Kay_Ivey_2017_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="783" data-file-height="1069" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Ivey in 2017</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">54th <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Alabama" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Alabama">Governor of Alabama</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><b><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Assumed office</b></span> <br />April 10, 2017</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Alabama" title="Lieutenant Governor of Alabama">Lieutenant</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Vacant</i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2017–2019)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Will_Ainsworth" title="Will Ainsworth">Will Ainsworth</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2019–present)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_J._Bentley" title="Robert J. Bentley">Robert J. Bentley</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">30th <a href="/wiki/List_of_lieutenant_governors_of_Alabama" class="mw-redirect" title="List of lieutenant governors of Alabama">Lieutenant Governor of Alabama</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 17, 2011 – April 10, 2017</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Governor</th><td class="infobox-data">Robert J. Bentley</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jim_Folsom_Jr." title="Jim Folsom Jr.">Jim Folsom Jr.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Will Ainsworth</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">38th <a href="/wiki/Alabama_State_Treasurer" title="Alabama State Treasurer">Treasurer of Alabama</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 20, 2003 – January 17, 2011</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Governor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bob_Riley" title="Bob Riley">Bob Riley</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lucy_Baxley" title="Lucy Baxley">Lucy Baxley</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Young_Boozer" title="Young Boozer">Young Boozer</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Kay Ellen Ivey</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1944-10-15</span>) </span>October 15, 1944<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 80)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Camden,_Alabama" title="Camden, Alabama">Camden, Alabama</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> (2002–present)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> (before 2002)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Ben LaRavia</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="August 1967">1967</span>; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1969)<wbr /></div><br /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712" /> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Tom Clement</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319" /><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="August 1991">1991</span>; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1993)<wbr /></div><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Alabama_Governor%27s_Mansion" title="Alabama Governor's Mansion">Governor's Mansion</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Auburn_University" title="Auburn University">Auburn University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kay_Ivey_signature.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Kay Ivey's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Kay_Ivey_signature.svg/128px-Kay_Ivey_signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="65" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Kay_Ivey_signature.svg/192px-Kay_Ivey_signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Kay_Ivey_signature.svg/256px-Kay_Ivey_signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="260" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Kay Ellen Ivey</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span><span title="'v' in 'vie'">v</span><span title="/i/: 'y' in 'happy'">i</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">EYE</span>-vee</i></a>;<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> born October 15, 1944) is an American politician who is the 54th <a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Alabama" title="List of governors of Alabama">governor of Alabama</a>, serving since 2017. Originally a <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Democrat" title="Conservative Democrat">conservative</a> <a href="/wiki/Southern_Democrats" title="Southern Democrats">Southern Democrat</a>, Ivey became a member of the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> in 2002. She was the 38th <a href="/wiki/Alabama_State_Treasurer" title="Alabama State Treasurer">Alabama state treasurer</a> from 2003 to 2011 and the 30th <a href="/wiki/List_of_lieutenant_governors_of_Alabama" class="mw-redirect" title="List of lieutenant governors of Alabama">lieutenant governor of Alabama</a> from 2011 to 2017. </p><p>Ivey became Alabama's second female governor and the first female Republican governor upon the resignation of her predecessor, <a href="/wiki/Robert_J._Bentley" title="Robert J. Bentley">Robert J. Bentley</a>. She won a full term in <a href="/wiki/2018_Alabama_gubernatorial_election" title="2018 Alabama gubernatorial election">2018</a> by 19.1 percentage points against Democratic nominee <a href="/wiki/Walt_Maddox" title="Walt Maddox">Walt Maddox</a> and was reelected by 37.7 percentage points over Democratic nominee <a href="/wiki/Yolanda_Flowers" class="mw-redirect" title="Yolanda Flowers">Yolanda Flowers</a> in <a href="/wiki/2022_Alabama_gubernatorial_election" title="2022 Alabama gubernatorial election">2022</a>. At <span class="currentage"></span>80, Ivey is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_governors" title="List of current United States governors">oldest currently serving governor in the United States</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ivey was born on October 15, 1944, in <a href="/wiki/Camden,_Alabama" title="Camden, Alabama">Camden, Alabama</a>, as the only child to Boadman Nettles (1913–1997) and Barbara Elizabeth Ivey (<a href="/wiki/N%C3%A9e" class="mw-redirect" title="Née">née</a> Nettles; 1915–1998).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her father, who served as an officer in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">U.S. Army</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, worked with the <a href="/wiki/Boykin,_Alabama" title="Boykin, Alabama">Gees Bend</a> community as part of the <a href="/wiki/Farmers_Home_Administration" title="Farmers Home Administration">Farmers Home Administration</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Growing up in Camden, Ivey worked on her father's farm. She graduated from <a href="/wiki/Auburn_University" title="Auburn University">Auburn University</a>, where she was a member of <a href="/wiki/Alpha_Gamma_Delta" title="Alpha Gamma Delta">Alpha Gamma Delta</a>, becoming president of her first-year pledge class,<sup id="cite_ref-Who?_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Who?-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and served in the Student Government Association all four years.<sup id="cite_ref-Who?_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Who?-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ivey participated in a <a href="/wiki/Blackface" title="Blackface">blackface</a> skit in 1967, while a student at Auburn. When questioned about this in 2019 she initially claimed not to have taken part, but after a recording surfaced in which she discussed her participation, she admitted it.<sup id="cite_ref-al-blackface_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-al-blackface-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2021, Ivey received an honorary <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Letters" title="Doctor of Letters">Doctor of Letters</a> from <a href="/wiki/Jacksonville_State_University" title="Jacksonville State University">Jacksonville State University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1967, Ivey moved to <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> following her first marriage and became a <a href="/wiki/Secondary_education_in_the_United_States" title="Secondary education in the United States">high school teacher</a> for several years.<sup id="cite_ref-Who?_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Who?-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the end of her marriage, she returned to Alabama and landed a position with Merchants National Bank, where she launched a school relations program to promote financial literacy.<sup id="cite_ref-Who?_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Who?-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ivey has been divorced twice and has no children.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Entry_into_politics">Entry into politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Entry into politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kay_Ivey_is_sworn_in_as_State_Treasurer.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Kay_Ivey_is_sworn_in_as_State_Treasurer.jpg/250px-Kay_Ivey_is_sworn_in_as_State_Treasurer.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Kay_Ivey_is_sworn_in_as_State_Treasurer.jpg/330px-Kay_Ivey_is_sworn_in_as_State_Treasurer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Kay_Ivey_is_sworn_in_as_State_Treasurer.jpg/500px-Kay_Ivey_is_sworn_in_as_State_Treasurer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="882" /></a><figcaption>Ivey after being sworn in as State Treasurer in 2003</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1979, she was appointed by then-Governor <a href="/wiki/Fob_James" title="Fob James">Fob James</a> to serve in the state cabinet.<sup id="cite_ref-Who?_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Who?-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She later served as the reading clerk of the Alabama House of Representatives between 1980 and 1982 and served as Assistant Director of the Alabama Development Office between 1982 and 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1982, Ivey ran unsuccessfully for <a href="/wiki/State_Auditor_of_Alabama" title="State Auditor of Alabama">State Auditor</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(U.S.)" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Party (U.S.)">Democrat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was Director of Government Affairs and Communications for the <a href="/wiki/Alabama_Commission_on_Higher_Education" title="Alabama Commission on Higher Education">Alabama Commission on Higher Education</a> from 1985 until 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="State_Treasurer_(2003–2011)"><span id="State_Treasurer_.282003.E2.80.932011.29"></span>State Treasurer (2003–2011)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: State Treasurer (2003–2011)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kay_Ivey_is_sworn_in_by_Jeff_Sessions.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Kay_Ivey_is_sworn_in_by_Jeff_Sessions.jpg/220px-Kay_Ivey_is_sworn_in_by_Jeff_Sessions.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Kay_Ivey_is_sworn_in_by_Jeff_Sessions.jpg/330px-Kay_Ivey_is_sworn_in_by_Jeff_Sessions.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Kay_Ivey_is_sworn_in_by_Jeff_Sessions.jpg/440px-Kay_Ivey_is_sworn_in_by_Jeff_Sessions.jpg 2x" data-file-width="908" data-file-height="648" /></a><figcaption>Ivey is sworn into a second term as State Treasurer by <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Sessions" title="Jeff Sessions">Jeff Sessions</a> in 2007</figcaption></figure> <p>Ivey took office as state treasurer in 2003, after defeating Stephen Black, the grandson of former <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">United States Supreme Court</a> justice <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Black" title="Hugo Black">Hugo Black</a>, in the 2002 general election, by a margin of 52–48%.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2006, Ivey was reelected over Democrat Steve Segrest by a 60–40% margin.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was the first Republican elected state treasurer since <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_Era_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Reconstruction Era of the United States">Reconstruction</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-state1_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-state1-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ivey served as Treasurer during the near-complete financial collapse of the Prepaid Affordable College Tuition (PACT) program. Under this program tens of thousands of Alabama families were assured by the state that their investment in the program would guarantee their children four years of tuition at any state college.<sup id="cite_ref-Who?_8-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Who?-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the period after the program's inception in 1990, many of the state's colleges increased the cost of tuition at triple the inflation rate (or more), and combined with stock market downturns in 2000 and 2008, the program became financially unsustainable. The Alabama state legislature subsequently bailed it out.<sup id="cite_ref-Who?_8-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Who?-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lieutenant_Governor_(2011–2017)"><span id="Lieutenant_Governor_.282011.E2.80.932017.29"></span>Lieutenant Governor (2011–2017)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Lieutenant Governor (2011–2017)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:140405-Z-MX315-204_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/140405-Z-MX315-204_%28cropped%29.jpg/250px-140405-Z-MX315-204_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/140405-Z-MX315-204_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-140405-Z-MX315-204_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/140405-Z-MX315-204_%28cropped%29.jpg/500px-140405-Z-MX315-204_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1435" data-file-height="861" /></a><figcaption>Ivey with <a href="/wiki/Martha_Roby" title="Martha Roby">Martha Roby</a>, Robert J. Bentley, and <a href="/wiki/Terri_Sewell" title="Terri Sewell">Terri Sewell</a> in 2014</figcaption></figure> <p>Under the <a href="/wiki/Alabama_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama Constitution">Alabama Constitution</a>, Ivey was not eligible to seek reelection to a third term as state treasurer in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her name surfaced in press speculation about gubernatorial candidates in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2009, Ivey announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor in the 2010 elections, joining a crowded field of seven Republican candidates.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2010, Ivey abandoned her run for governor and qualified to run for lieutenant governor.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She ran against State Senator <a href="/wiki/Hank_Erwin" title="Hank Erwin">Hank Erwin</a> of <a href="/wiki/Montevallo,_Alabama" title="Montevallo, Alabama">Montevallo</a> and schoolteacher Gene Ponder of <a href="/wiki/Baldwin_County,_Alabama" title="Baldwin County, Alabama">Baldwin County</a> for the Republican nomination.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the June 2010 <a href="/wiki/Partisan_primary" class="mw-redirect" title="Partisan primary">primary election</a>, Ivey won the nomination with 56.6% of the vote, to Erwin's 31.4% and Ponder's 12%.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the November 2010 elections, in a Republican sweep of statewide offices, Ivey defeated Democratic incumbent Lieutenant Governor <a href="/wiki/Jim_Folsom_Jr." title="Jim Folsom Jr.">Jim Folsom Jr.</a>, who had sought an unprecedented fourth term. Ivey received 764,112 votes to Folsom's 718,636.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, Ivey was challenged in the Republican primary by pastor Stan Cooke of <a href="/wiki/Jefferson_County,_Alabama" title="Jefferson County, Alabama">Jefferson County</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ivey received the support of major lobbying groups, such as the Business Council of Alabama, Alabama Retail Association, Alabama Farmers Federation, and Alabama Forestry Association.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ivey defeated Cooke in the primary, with 257,588 votes (61.68%) to Cooke's 160,023 (38.32%).<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the general election, Ivey faced Democratic nominee James C. Fields, a former state legislator.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In November 2014, Ivey won reelection with 738,090 votes to Fields's 428,007.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This marked the first time a Republican was reelected lieutenant governor in the state's history.<sup id="cite_ref-WHNT-TV_2017-04-10_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WHNT-TV_2017-04-10-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governor_of_Alabama_(2017–present)"><span id="Governor_of_Alabama_.282017.E2.80.93present.29"></span>Governor of Alabama (2017–present)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Governor of Alabama (2017–present)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mike_Pence_and_Kay_Ivey.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Mike_Pence_and_Kay_Ivey.jpg/250px-Mike_Pence_and_Kay_Ivey.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Mike_Pence_and_Kay_Ivey.jpg/330px-Mike_Pence_and_Kay_Ivey.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Mike_Pence_and_Kay_Ivey.jpg/500px-Mike_Pence_and_Kay_Ivey.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4425" data-file-height="3540" /></a><figcaption>Ivey with Vice President <a href="/wiki/Mike_Pence" title="Mike Pence">Mike Pence</a> during his visit to Alabama, October 2018</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Taking_office_and_first_months_as_governor">Taking office and first months as governor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Taking office and first months as governor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Governor_Kay_Ivey_2017.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Governor_Kay_Ivey_2017.jpg/250px-Governor_Kay_Ivey_2017.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Governor_Kay_Ivey_2017.jpg/330px-Governor_Kay_Ivey_2017.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Governor_Kay_Ivey_2017.jpg/500px-Governor_Kay_Ivey_2017.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2456" data-file-height="3680" /></a><figcaption>Ivey speaking in 2017</figcaption></figure> <p>Ivey was sworn in as governor following the resignation of <a href="/wiki/Robert_J._Bentley" title="Robert J. Bentley">Robert J. Bentley</a> on April 10, 2017. She is the second female governor in the state's history. The first was <a href="/wiki/Lurleen_Wallace" title="Lurleen Wallace">Lurleen Wallace</a>, the wife of former governor <a href="/wiki/George_Wallace" title="George Wallace">George Wallace</a>; she was governor for about 16 months in 1967 and 1968, until her death from cancer.<sup id="cite_ref-WHNT-TV_2017-04-10_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WHNT-TV_2017-04-10-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2017, Ivey signed a bill into law that barred judges from overruling a jury's recommendation on the <a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Alabama" title="Capital punishment in Alabama">death penalty</a> in sentencing in capital murder cases. Previously Alabama had been the only state with a "<a href="/wiki/Judicial_override" title="Judicial override">judicial override</a>" that allowed a judge to sentence a defendant to death when a jury had recommended a sentence of life without parole. Before the bill was passed, Alabama's capital sentencing scheme was viewed as likely to be struck down as unconstitutional by the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Supreme Court">U.S. Supreme Court</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2017, Ivey signed into law: </p> <ul><li>a bill to speed up death penalty appeals and hasten executions in Alabama.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>a bill barring the removal of any monuments on public display, or the renaming of any public street or building, that had existed for 40 years or more—effectively protecting the state's <a href="/wiki/List_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials_in_Alabama" title="List of Confederate monuments and memorials in Alabama">Confederate monuments</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>a bill banning <a href="/wiki/Crossover_voting" title="Crossover voting">crossover voting</a> (the practice of casting a ballot in one party's primary election and then casting a ballot in other party's <a href="/wiki/Runoff_election" class="mw-redirect" title="Runoff election">runoff elections</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>a bill allowing faith-based adoption agencies to refuse to place children with gay couples. This bill was criticized by the <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Campaign" title="Human Rights Campaign">Human Rights Campaign</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>In September 2017, Ivey announced that she was running for election to a full term in the <a href="/wiki/2018_Alabama_gubernatorial_election" title="2018 Alabama gubernatorial election">2018 gubernatorial election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-iveyofficial_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iveyofficial-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roy_Moore_and_the_2017_special_election_for_U.S._Senate">Roy Moore and the 2017 special election for U.S. Senate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Roy Moore and the 2017 special election for U.S. Senate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Former U.S. Senator <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Sessions" title="Jeff Sessions">Jeff Sessions</a> resigned from that office in February 2017 to serve as <a href="/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General" title="United States Attorney General">U.S. Attorney General</a>, whereupon then-Governor Bentley chose <a href="/wiki/Luther_Strange" title="Luther Strange">Luther Strange</a> to succeed Sessions in the Senate, pending a special election that Bentley controversially scheduled for <a href="/wiki/2018_United_States_elections" title="2018 United States elections">2018</a> instead of sooner.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Ivey succeeded Bentley, she rescheduled the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Alabama,_2017" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate special election in Alabama, 2017">special election for December 12, 2017</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After former Alabama Chief Justice <a href="/wiki/Roy_Moore" title="Roy Moore">Roy Moore</a> won the Republican nomination for that U.S. Senate seat, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> published an article revealing <a href="/wiki/Roy_Moore_sexual_abuse_allegations" class="mw-redirect" title="Roy Moore sexual abuse allegations">allegations of sexual abuse against minors by Moore</a>, which caused many Republican voters and groups in Alabama to withdraw their support for him. There began to be discussion as to whether Ivey would delay the election to allow the Republicans to field an alternative candidate. Ivey subsequently said: "The election date is set for December 12. Were [Strange] to resign I would simply appoint somebody to fill the remaining time until we have the election on December 12."<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ivey stated on November 17 that although she had no reason to disbelieve the allegations, she intended to vote for Moore to protect the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate, a statement for which she was criticized.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moore lost the special election to former U.S. Attorney and Democratic nominee <a href="/wiki/Doug_Jones_(politician)" title="Doug Jones (politician)">Doug Jones</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On December 28 Ivey and Alabama Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/John_Merrill_(American_politician)" title="John Merrill (American politician)">John Merrill</a> certified the senatorial election result despite an attempt by the Moore campaign to delay certification over unsubstantiated accusations of voter fraud.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economic_policy">Economic policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Economic policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On April 6, 2018, Ivey signed a bill exempting economic development professionals from registering as lobbyists under the Alabama ethics law. The bill was sponsored by <a href="/wiki/Ken_Johnson_(Alabama_politician)" title="Ken Johnson (Alabama politician)">Ken Johnson</a> and would have died if not signed by Ivey over the weekend. Ivey said the legislation would allow the state "to remain on a level playing field with other states, as we compete for job creating capital investments" and Alabama's ability to attract highly sought-after economic development projects would allow the state to continue experiencing "record-low unemployment".<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On April 9, Ivey signed a bill extending the reach of the Simplified Sellers Use Tax to capture purchases from third-party vendors selling products through Amazon and other online marketplaces. In a press release, Ivey said the legislation would "help bring about a competitive balance between brick-and-mortar retailers in Alabama and third-party online sellers, while streamlining the collection of use taxes that are currently due on online transactions."<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a June letter to <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Commerce" title="United States Secretary of Commerce">United States Secretary of Commerce</a> <a href="/wiki/Wilbur_Ross" title="Wilbur Ross">Wilbur Ross</a>, Ivey wrote that she opposed "any efforts that may harm those companies that employ thousands of Alabamians and contribute billions to our economy" and advocated for Ross to "not recommend to President Trump the levying of trade tariffs on automobiles and automotive parts."<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In August, Ivey named Kelly Butler as Alabama acting finance director, saying that Butler would serve until the completion of a search for a permanent director and would "do an excellent job leading the Alabama Department of Finance during this interim period."<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Education_policy">Education policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Education policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In October 2018, Ivey announced her intent to form an advisory council with the purpose of studying ways to improve science, technology, engineering and math instruction in schools to meet an expectation of strong job demands over the following decade. Ivey said that STEM-related jobs were expected to grow faster than most other forms of employment while paying a median wage roughly twice as large as jobs in other fields and that the Governor's Advisory Council for Excellence in STEM would include educators and representatives of government, business and industry who would give her a comprehensive report on the matter by the end of the year.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2024, Ivey signed SB 129, preventing public teachers from getting students to conform or accept "divisive concepts" and blocking public funds from being used for <a href="/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion" title="Diversity, equity, and inclusion">DEI</a> efforts. She said that although she supported the state's "rich diversity", she wanted to prevent people on college campuses from using "their liberal political movement counter to what the majority of Alabamians believe.”<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ivey supported the May 2024 Education Trust Fund budget passed by the Alabama Legislature, which she argued "wisely invests in the spectrum of education" and would jumpstart "priority projects like the Alabama School of Healthcare Sciences."<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="LGBT_rights">LGBT rights</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: LGBT rights"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In May 2017, Ivey signed House Bill 24, which would permit religious agencies to refuse to place an adopted child in an LGBTQ family.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2021, Ivey signed a bill banning <a href="/wiki/Transgender" title="Transgender">trans</a> girls from competing in women's sports in Alabama.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The bill, HB 391, sponsored by Representative <a href="/wiki/Scott_Stadthagen" title="Scott Stadthagen">Scott Stadthagen</a>, bans <a href="/wiki/K-12" class="mw-redirect" title="K-12">K-12</a> sports teams from participating in trans-inclusive athletic events.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It passed the <a href="/wiki/Alabama_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama House">Alabama House</a> 74-19 and the <a href="/wiki/Alabama_Senate" title="Alabama Senate">Alabama Senate</a> 25-5.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2022, Ivey signed two bills related to transgender issues into law. One bans doctors from providing gender-affirming medical care to anyone under 19 and would subject doctors to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $15,000 for providing such treatments. In a statement, Ivey said, "There are very real challenges facing our young people, especially with today’s societal pressures and modern culture" and "I believe very strongly that if the Good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl."<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The other law requires students to use the bathrooms of their birth sex. The bill was amended in the Senate to prevent discussions of sexual orientation or <a href="/wiki/Gender_identity" title="Gender identity">gender identity</a> in kindergarten through fifth grade, modeled after Florida's <a href="/wiki/Parental_Rights_in_Education_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Parental Rights in Education Act">Parental Rights in Education Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Firearm_policy">Firearm policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Firearm policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In May 2018, Ivey signed a memo authorizing Alabama school administrators to have guns at schools if they qualified under the Alabama Sentry Program, and thereby be granted permission to "use lethal force to defend the students, faculty, staff, and visitors of his or her school from the threat of imminent bodily harm or death by an armed intruder." In her announcement of the policy, she said, "With the unfortunate continuance of occurrence of school violence in our schools across the nation, we simply cannot afford to wait until the next legislative session."<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The proposal was criticized by members of both parties, with Republican <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Huntsville" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor of Huntsville">Mayor of Huntsville</a> <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Battle" title="Tommy Battle">Tommy Battle</a> dismissing it as a "one size fits all" plan and Democratic Mayor of Tuscaloosa <a href="/wiki/Walt_Maddox" title="Walt Maddox">Walt Maddox</a> suggesting that the program was flawed.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2022, Ivey signed into law House Bill 272, known as <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_carry" title="Constitutional carry">constitutional carry</a>. It eliminates the legal requirement to obtain a permit to conceal carry handguns. Ivey said, "Unlike states who are doing everything in their power to make it harder for law-abiding citizens, Alabama is reaffirming our commitment to defending our Second Amendment rights", and "I have always stood up for the rights of law-abiding gun owners, and I am proud to do that again today."<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abortion">Abortion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Abortion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In August 2018, after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that blocked the Alabama Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Act, Ivey reflected on her support for the state law while serving as lieutenant governor and said, "we should not let this discourage our steadfast commitment to protect the lives of the unborn, even if that means taking this case to the U.S. Supreme Court." She added that the ruling "clearly demonstrates why we need <a href="/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States">conservative</a> justices on the Supreme Court" and expressed her support for the <a href="/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh_Supreme_Court_nomination" title="Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination">confirmation</a> of Justice <a href="/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh">Brett Kavanaugh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court">United States Supreme Court</a> declined to hear an appeal of the 11th Circuit Court's ruling. The <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union" title="American Civil Liberties Union">American Civil Liberties Union</a> represented those opposing appeal. ACLU attorney Andrew Beck said, "While we are pleased to see the end of this particular case, we know that it is nowhere near the end of efforts to undermine access to abortion."<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 15, 2019, Ivey signed the more restrictive <a href="/wiki/House_Bill_314" class="mw-redirect" title="House Bill 314">House Bill 314</a>, which intended to criminalize abortion as of November 2019, with the exception of cases where the mother's life is under threat or the fetus might not survive. It mandated prison sentences of up to 99 years for physicians performing such surgery.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The bill contradicted the then extant <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">U.S. Supreme Court</a> ruling in <i><a href="/wiki/Roe_v._Wade" title="Roe v. Wade">Roe v. Wade</a></i> that laws banning abortion before fetal viability were unconstitutional, and was expected to be challenged in court.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The legislation did not allow for exceptions in cases of rape or incest.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On October 29, shortly before the law was to take effect, a federal judge blocked the statute. Ivey and Alabama Attorney General <a href="/wiki/Steve_Marshall_(politician)" title="Steve Marshall (politician)">Steve Marshall</a> said they expected that the Supreme Court would overturn the ruling on appeal.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2021, Ivey and Marshall joined eleven other governors and 23 other attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in a case where the <a href="/wiki/Jackson_Women%27s_Health_Organization" title="Jackson Women's Health Organization">Jackson Women's Health Organization</a> filed a lawsuit that challenged a Mississippi bill that banned abortions after 15 weeks gestation.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the July 2022 overturning of <i>Roe v. Wade</i>, Ivey released a statement saying that "our prayers have been answered" and that she "could not be more proud as a governor, a Christian and a woman to see this misguided and detrimental decision overturned."<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Health_care_policy">Health care policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Health care policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In March 2018, Ivey announced that Alabama would seek permission to put work or job-training requirements on the <a href="/wiki/Medicaid" title="Medicaid">Medicaid</a> benefits for roughly 75,000 able-bodied adults whose incomes were just a few hundred dollars a month. She asserted that the work requirements would "save taxpayer dollars and will reserve Medicaid services for those that are truly in need of assistance."<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September, Ivey said that everyone wanted "high-quality medicine at an affordable cost available to everybody" but that enacting the policy would require figuring out how to pay for it.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On October 1, Ivey announced that the federal government had approved a new care-management program in Alabama to complement and enhance the state's current system of long-term care services provided to approximately 23,000 Alabama Medicaid recipients. She called the approval "a significant step in our efforts to transform the delivery of services to Medicaid recipients" and said it was her goal "to ensure that all Alabamians receive high-quality health care, no matter their economic status."<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ivey opposes <a href="/wiki/Medicaid_expansion" class="mw-redirect" title="Medicaid expansion">Medicaid expansion</a>, saying in 2018 that it was "not an issue we can tackle at this point."<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="COVID-19">COVID-19</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: COVID-19"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On March 13, 2020, Ivey declared a state of emergency over the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the United States">COVID-19 pandemic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was initially reluctant to issue a <a href="/wiki/Stay-at-home_order" title="Stay-at-home order">stay-at-home order</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but bowed to pressure from Lieutenant Governor <a href="/wiki/Will_Ainsworth" title="Will Ainsworth">Will Ainsworth</a>, among others, who criticized Ivey's pandemic response as inadequate.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On April 3, she issued a stay-at-home order to take effect the following day.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2021, Ivey prohibited Alabama's businesses and public institutions from requiring proof of vaccination against COVID-19 to access facilities and services.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2021, she pleaded with Alabamians to get vaccinated, blaming the unvaccinated for the continued spread of the disease.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2021, she signed a bill into law that used COVID-19 relief funds to build new prisons in Alabama.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2021, she ordered Alabama's state agencies to refuse to comply with federal vaccine requirements.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Environmental_policy">Environmental policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Environmental policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In October 2018, Ivey appointed Ruby L. Perry and Kevin McKinstry to the Alabama Environmental Management Commission.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Election_security">Election security</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Election security"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In May 2024, Ivey signed into law a bill that criminalizes the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to create materially deceptive media in election campaigns.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For first-time offenders, it is a misdemeanor to distribute AI-generated <a href="/wiki/Deepfake" title="Deepfake">deepfakes</a> showing a person saying or doing something they did not. Subsequent violations are felonies. The law went into effect on October 1, 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reelection_campaign">Reelection campaign</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Reelection campaign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In June 2021, Ivey's office announced her decision to run for a second full term as governor.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ivey drew 14 challengers by the time the candidate qualification period closed.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eight of those running against her were doing so in the Republican primary.<sup id="cite_ref-ALSOSGOPReg_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ALSOSGOPReg-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During her campaign, Ivey released an ad promoting the <a href="/wiki/Big_lie#Donald_Trump's_false_claims_of_a_stolen_election" title="Big lie">unfounded conspiracy theory</a> that the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="2020 United States presidential election">2020 presidential election</a> had been "stolen" from <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ivey won the Republican primary and was reelected in the general election with 67.4% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Communications_transparency">Communications transparency</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Communications transparency"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shortly after being inaugurated for her second full term as governor in January 2023, Ivey signed an executive order aiming to promote transparency in state government by requiring agencies to respond to public records requests.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same month, the <a href="/wiki/Alabama_Department_of_Transportation" title="Alabama Department of Transportation">Alabama Department of Transportation</a> acquired an emergency order to prevent the release of communications between its director, John Cooper, and Ivey's office. This came amid a lawsuit between the agency and the Baldwin County Bridge Company; Cooper sought to withhold these records from the Montgomery County Circuit Court, and cited "executive privilege" in doing so. Ivey signed an <i><a href="/wiki/Amicus_curiae" title="Amicus curiae">amicus curiae</a></i> filing in support of Cooper's efforts to suppress the release of the communication records with her office. The signing occurred less than a week after the enactment of the transparency executive order.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_politics">National politics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: National politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In October 2018, Ivey met with Vice President <a href="/wiki/Mike_Pence" title="Mike Pence">Mike Pence</a> when the latter came to Alabama for a <a href="/wiki/National_Republican_Senatorial_Committee" title="National Republican Senatorial Committee">National Republican Senatorial Committee</a> event and the pair discussed getting aid to Alabamians affected by <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Michael" title="Hurricane Michael">Hurricane Michael</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ivey has been married and divorced twice, and has no children.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her first marriage was to Ben LaRavia; they became engaged while studying at Auburn University.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ivey is a member of <a href="/wiki/First_Baptist_Church_(South_Perry_Street,_Montgomery,_Alabama)" title="First Baptist Church (South Perry Street, Montgomery, Alabama)">First Baptist Church</a> in Montgomery.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2019, Ivey was diagnosed with <a href="/wiki/Lung_cancer" title="Lung cancer">lung cancer</a>. She received an outpatient treatment at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Alabama_at_Birmingham" title="University of Alabama at Birmingham">University of Alabama at Birmingham</a> on September 20, 2019. She said, "I am confident of God’s plan and purpose for my life."<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ivey was declared cancer-free in January 2020. The cancer was <a href="/wiki/Cancer_staging#Overall_stage_grouping" title="Cancer staging">Stage I</a> and responded well to <a href="/wiki/Radiation_therapy" title="Radiation therapy">radiation treatment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_history">Electoral history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Electoral history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption>2002 Alabama Treasurer election<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Kay Ivey </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>660,873 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.77% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Stephen Foster Black </td> <td style="text-align:right">609,544 </td> <td style="text-align:right">46.82% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FED105;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian</a> </td> <td class="fn">Gabe Garland </td> <td style="text-align:right">30,201 </td> <td style="text-align:right">2.32% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFFFFF; width: 2px;"> </td> <td class="org" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Write-in_candidate" title="Write-in candidate">Write-in</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1098 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.01% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>1,301,716 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100% </b> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color: #F6F6F6;"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#E81B23;"> </td> <td colspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>2006 Alabama Treasurer election<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319" /><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Kay Ivey (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>724,861 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>60.55% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+9.78% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Steve Segrest </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">471,570 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.39% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−7.43% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white; width: 2px;"> </td> <td class="org" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Write-in_candidate" title="Write-in candidate">Write-in</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">730 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.01% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>1,197,761 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100% </b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E81B23;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <b>hold</b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption>2010 Alabama lieutenant gubernatorial Republican primary results<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Kay Ivey </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>255,205 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>56.64% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Hank Erwin </td> <td style="text-align:right">141,420 </td> <td style="text-align:right">31.39% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Gene Ponder </td> <td style="text-align:right">53,965 </td> <td style="text-align:right">11.98% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>450,590 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100% </b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption>2010 Alabama lieutenant gubernatorial election<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Kay Ivey </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>764,112 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.47% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Jim_Folsom,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Jim Folsom, Jr.">Jim Folsom, Jr.</a> (incumbent) </td> <td style="text-align:right">718,636 </td> <td style="text-align:right">48.40% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFFFFF; width: 2px;"> </td> <td class="org" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Write-in_candidate" title="Write-in candidate">Write-in</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,945 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.13% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>1,484,693 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100% </b> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color: #F6F6F6;"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#E81B23;"> </td> <td colspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>2014 Alabama lieutenant gubernatorial Republican primary results<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319" /><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Kay Ivey (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>257,588 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>61.68% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+5.04% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Stan Cooke </td> <td style="text-align:right">160,023 </td> <td style="text-align:right">38.32% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>417,611 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100% </b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>2014 Alabama lieutenant gubernatorial election<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319" /><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Kay Ivey (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>738,090 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>63.23% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+11.76% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/James_C._Fields" title="James C. Fields">James C. Fields</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">428,007 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.67% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.73% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white; width: 2px;"> </td> <td class="org" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Write-in_candidate" title="Write-in candidate">Write-in</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,146 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.01% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">-0.12% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>1,167,243 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100% </b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E81B23;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <b>hold</b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption>2018 Alabama gubernatorial Republican primary results<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Kay Ivey (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>330,743 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>56.1% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Tommy Battle </td> <td style="text-align:right">146,887 </td> <td style="text-align:right">24.9% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Scott Dawson </td> <td style="text-align:right">79,302 </td> <td style="text-align:right">13.5% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Bill Hightower </td> <td style="text-align:right">29,275 </td> <td style="text-align:right">5.0% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Michael McAllister </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,326 </td> <td style="text-align:right">0.6% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>589,533 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.0% </b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2018_Alabama_gubernatorial_election" title="2018 Alabama gubernatorial election">2018 Alabama gubernatorial election</a><sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319" /><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Kay Ivey (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>1,022,457 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>59.46% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−4.10% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Walt Maddox </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">694,495 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.39% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.15% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white; width: 2px;"> </td> <td class="org" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Write-in_candidate" title="Write-in candidate">Write-in</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,637 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.15% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">-0.05% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>1,719,589 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.0% </b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E81B23;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <b>hold</b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption>2022 Alabama gubernatorial Republican primary results<sup id="cite_ref-ALSOSGOPReg_95-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ALSOSGOPReg-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Kay Ivey (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>356,374 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>54.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Lynda Blanchard </td> <td style="text-align:right">125,982 </td> <td style="text-align:right">19.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Tim James </td> <td style="text-align:right">105,984 </td> <td style="text-align:right">16.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Lew Burdette </td> <td style="text-align:right">42,910 </td> <td style="text-align:right">6.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Dean Odle </td> <td style="text-align:right">11,771 </td> <td style="text-align:right">1.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Donald Trent Jones </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,907 </td> <td style="text-align:right">0.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Dave Thomas </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,981 </td> <td style="text-align:right">0.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Stacy Lee George </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,589 </td> <td style="text-align:right">0.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Dean Young </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,395 </td> <td style="text-align:right">0.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>654,893 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100 </b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2022_Alabama_gubernatorial_election" title="2022 Alabama gubernatorial election">2022 Alabama gubernatorial election</a><sup id="cite_ref-alabama-2022-certified-general-results_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-alabama-2022-certified-general-results-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319" /><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Kay Ivey (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>946,932 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>66.9% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+7.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Yolanda Flowers </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">412,961 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.2% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.2% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FED105; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian</a> </td> <td class="fn">Jimmy Blake </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45,958 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.2% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white; width: 2px;"> </td> <td class="org" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Write-in_candidate" title="Write-in candidate">Write-in</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9,432 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.6% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.5% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>1,415,283 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.0% </b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E81B23;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <b>hold</b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_female_governors_in_the_United_States" title="List of female governors in the United States">List of female governors in the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_female_lieutenant_governors_in_the_United_States" title="List of female lieutenant governors in the United States">List of female lieutenant governors in the United States</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sos.alabama.gov/downloads/election/2014/primary/2014-Pri-CertifiedResults-RepParty_2014-06-13.pdf/">the original</a> on July 18, 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">5 January</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Canvass+of+Results+-+General+Election+-+November+8%2C+2022&rft.pub=Secretary+of+State+of+Alabama&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sos.alabama.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Felection-data%2F2022-11%2FFinal%2520Canvass%2520of%2520Results%2520%2528canvassed%2520by%2520state%2520canvassing%2520board%252011-28-2022%2529.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKay+Ivey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kay_Ivey&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Wilson, Claire. 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Mendheim Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greg_Cook_(judge)" title="Greg Cook (judge)">Greg Cook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_McCool" title="Chris McCool">Chris McCool</a>, Associate Justices</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Governors_and_lieutenant_governors_of_Alabama158" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Governors_of_Alabama" title="Template:Governors of Alabama"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Governors_of_Alabama" title="Template talk:Governors of Alabama"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Governors_of_Alabama" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Governors of Alabama"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Governors_and_lieutenant_governors_of_Alabama158" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Alabama" title="List of governors of Alabama">Governors</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_lieutenant_governors_of_Alabama" class="mw-redirect" title="List of lieutenant governors of Alabama">lieutenant governors</a> of <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Governors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Wyatt_Bibb" class="mw-redirect" title="William Wyatt Bibb">W. Bibb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bibb" title="Thomas Bibb">T. Bibb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel_Pickens" title="Israel Pickens">Pickens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Murphy_(Alabama_politician)" title="John Murphy (Alabama politician)">Murphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Moore" title="Gabriel Moore">G. Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_B._Moore" title="Samuel B. Moore">S. Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Gayle_(Alabama_politician)" title="John Gayle (Alabama politician)">Gayle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clement_Comer_Clay" title="Clement Comer Clay">Clay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_McVay" title="Hugh McVay">McVay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_P._Bagby" title="Arthur P. Bagby">Bagby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Fitzpatrick" title="Benjamin Fitzpatrick">Fitzpatrick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joshua_L._Martin" title="Joshua L. Martin">Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reuben_Chapman" title="Reuben Chapman">Chapman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_W._Collier" title="Henry W. Collier">Collier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_A._Winston" title="John A. Winston">Winston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_B._Moore" title="Andrew B. Moore">A. Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Gill_Shorter" title="John Gill Shorter">Shorter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_H._Watts" title="Thomas H. Watts">Watts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_E._Parsons" title="Lewis E. Parsons">Parsons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_M._Patton" title="Robert M. Patton">Patton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wager_Swayne" title="Wager Swayne">Swayne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Hugh_Smith" title="William Hugh Smith">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_B._Lindsay" title="Robert B. Lindsay">Lindsay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_P._Lewis" title="David P. Lewis">Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_S._Houston" title="George S. Houston">Houston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rufus_W._Cobb" title="Rufus W. Cobb">Cobb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_A._O%27Neal" title="Edward A. O'Neal">E. A. O'Neal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Seay" title="Thomas Seay">Seay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_G._Jones" title="Thomas G. Jones">T. Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_C._Oates" title="William C. Oates">Oates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_F._Johnston" title="Joseph F. Johnston">Johnston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_J._Samford" title="William J. Samford">Samford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_D._Jelks" title="William D. Jelks">Jelks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._B._Comer" title="B. B. Comer">Comer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emmet_O%27Neal" title="Emmet O'Neal">E. 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