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Darcy Curran Reeves is an American businessman, journalist and politician who has served as the 64th
mayor of Pensacola The mayor of the City of Pensacola is the chief executive officer and holder of the city of Pensacola, Florida. The mayor's office is located at the city hall at 222 West Main Street in Downtown, and owns an estate near the Texar Bayou in East Pens ...
since 2022. The son of
James J. Reeves James Jerauld Reeves (born October 11, 1938) is a politician in the American state of Florida. He served in the Florida House of Representatives The Florida House of Representatives is the lower house of the Florida Legislature, the stat ...
, he worked for the Florida State University's student newspaper, the ''
Pensacola News Journal The '' Pensacola News Journal'' is a daily morning newspaper serving Escambia and Santa Rosa counties in Florida. It is Northwest Florida's most widely read daily. The ''News Journal'' is owned by Gannett, a national media holding company t ...
''
Warchant.com
and the
Tuscaloosa News The '' Tuscaloosa News '' is a daily newspaper serving Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, and the surrounding area in west central Alabama. In 2012, Halifax Media Group acquired the ''Tuscaloosa News''. Prior to that, the paper's owner was ...
before being hired as chief of Staff for
Quint Studer Quinton D. Studer (born 1951) is a Pensacola, Florida businessman and philanthropist, known as the co-owner of the minor league baseball team the Pensacola Blue Wahoos and founder of the healthcare consulting company, Studer Group. Early life a ...
. Reeves was the CEO of
Perfect Plain Brewing Co. Perfect commonly refers to: * Perfection, completeness, excellence * Perfect (grammar), a grammatical category in some languages Perfect may also refer to: Film * ''Perfect'' (1985 film), a romantic drama * ''Perfect'' (2018 film), a scien ...
, a
brewing Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast. It may be done in a brewery by a commercial brewer, ...
business, which he co-founded with Reed Odeneal, and sold to
New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans
Pensacola, Florida Pensacola () is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle, and the county seat and only incorporated city of Escambia County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 54,312. Pensacola is the principa ...
to Connie Bookman and
Jim Reeves James Travis Reeves (August 20, 1923July 31, 1964) was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well known as a practitioner of the Nashville Sound. Known as "Gentleman ...
, attorney and politician who served as a member of the
Florida House of Representatives The Florida House of Representatives is the lower house of the Florida Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Florida, the Florida Senate being the upper house. Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of Florida, adopte ...
from the 4th district from 1977 to 1983. Reeves first wrote an article for the ''
Pensacola News Journal The '' Pensacola News Journal'' is a daily morning newspaper serving Escambia and Santa Rosa counties in Florida. It is Northwest Florida's most widely read daily. The ''News Journal'' is owned by Gannett, a national media holding company t ...
'' when he was 16 years old. In 2002, Reeves graduated from
Pensacola Catholic High School Pensacola Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic, co-educational high school in Pensacola, Florida, United States. It was established in 1941 and is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee. History Pensacol ...
before going to Florida State University, where he was the editor of the school's student newspaper. After that, he "gave himself 10 years to really hone his craft and see how far he could get as a sportswriter." After working for the ''Pensacola News Journal'' for four years, he was hired b
WarChant.com
a FSU news website. In 2013, he was hired by the ''
Tuscaloosa News The '' Tuscaloosa News '' is a daily newspaper serving Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, and the surrounding area in west central Alabama. In 2012, Halifax Media Group acquired the ''Tuscaloosa News''. Prior to that, the paper's owner was ...
'' to cover the
Alabama Crimson Tide The Alabama Crimson Tide refers to the intercollegiate athletic varsity teams that represent the University of Alabama, located in Tuscaloosa. The Crimson Tide teams compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I as a m ...
football team. In 2015, while Reeves was working at ''Tuscaloosa News'', he was asked to work for
Quint Studer Quinton D. Studer (born 1951) is a Pensacola, Florida businessman and philanthropist, known as the co-owner of the minor league baseball team the Pensacola Blue Wahoos and founder of the healthcare consulting company, Studer Group. Early life a ...
, the founder of
Studer Group Studer is a designer and manufacturer of professional audio equipment for recording studios and broadcasters. The company was founded in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1948 by Willi Studer. It initially became known in the 1950s for its professio ...
, a healthcare consulting company. At the time, Studer was trying to get better at social media management. He spent six years as Studer's chief of Staff. From the traveling he had done, Reeves visited many local
craft brewery Craft beer is a beer that has been made by craft breweries. They produce smaller amounts of beer, typically less than large breweries, and are often independently owned. Such breweries are generally perceived and marketed as having an emphasis o ...
businesses, and wondered why there was none in Pensacola. He had talked about opening a brewery with his friend and
homebrewer Homebrewing is the brewing of beer or other alcoholic beverages on a small scale for personal, non-commercial purposes. Supplies, such as kits and fermentation tanks, can be purchased locally at specialty stores or online. Beer was brewed dom ...
Reed Odeneal, but original only in a joking manner. Reeves co-founded Perfect Plain Brewing Co. with Odeneal, and opened the brewery in November 2017. In 2019, he authored ''The Microbrewery Handbook'', a how-to guide to understanding the business of opening a brewery that was published by
Wiley & Sons John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley (), is an American multinational publishing company founded in 1807 that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials. The company produces books, journals, and encyclopedias, in p ...
. In October 2022, Reeves sold Perfect Plain Brewery, along with The Well, Perennial, and Garden & Grain, three other businesses he founded with Odeneal, to Urban South Brewery, a
New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans
Grover C. Robinson IV, and was the Chief Entrepreneur Officer at The Spring Entrepreneur Hub. From 2020 – 2021, Reeves served as chairman of the board for Visit Pensacola, the community's tourism marketing organization.


Mayor of Pensacola


2022 Pensacola mayoral election

On September 1, 2021, Reeves announced his candidacy for
mayor of Pensacola The mayor of the City of Pensacola is the chief executive officer and holder of the city of Pensacola, Florida. The mayor's office is located at the city hall at 222 West Main Street in Downtown, and owns an estate near the Texar Bayou in East Pens ...
in
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. On August 23, 2022, in the
primary election Primary elections, or direct primary are a voting process by which voters can indicate their preference for their party's candidate, or a candidate in general, in an upcoming general election, local election, or by-election. Depending on the ...
, Reeves earned the majority, 7,682 votes (51.11%), against three opponents, Jewell Cannada-Wynn, Sherri Myers and Steven Sharp. Because Reeves earned the majority in the primary, there was no
runoff election The two-round system (TRS), also known as runoff voting, second ballot, or ballotage, is a voting method used to elect a single candidate, where voters cast a single vote for their preferred candidate. It generally ensures a majoritarian resul ...
on November 8.


Mayor of Pensacola

On November 22, 2022, Reeves was sworn in as the 64th mayor of Pensacola, succeeding Grover C. Robinson IV. At 38 years old, Reeves is the youngest mayor since
J. Harvey Bayliss ''J. The Jewish News of Northern California'', formerly known as ''Jweekly'', is a weekly print newspaper in Northern California, with its online edition updated daily. It is owned and operated by San Francisco Jewish Community Publications In ...
, appointed mayor in 1921, a span of 101 years.


See also

* List of mayors of Pensacola, Florida


References


External links


Campaign Website
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