Darcy Curran Reeves is an American businessman, journalist and politician who has served as the 64th

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since 2022. The son of James J. Reeves, he worked for the

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's student newspaper, the ''

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''
Warchant.com
and the

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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., a

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business, which he co-founded with Reed Odeneal, and sold to

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-based Urban South Brewery in 2022.

Early life and career

Darcy Curran Reeves was born in

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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

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from the 4th district from 1977 to 1983. Reeves first wrote an article for the ''

'' when he was 16 years old. In 2002, Reeves graduated from

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before going to

, 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 ''

'' to cover the

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football team. In 2015, while Reeves was working at ''Tuscaloosa News'', he was asked to work for

, the founder of

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, 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

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businesses, and wondered why there was none in Pensacola. He had talked about opening a brewery with his friend and

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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

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. 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

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-based business. In 2019, Reeves was the lead staff on the Mayoral Transition team for Mayor

Grover C. Robinson IV Grover Cleveland Robinson IV is an American politician and real estate developer who served as the 63rd mayor of Pensacola from 2018 to 2022. Early life and education Grover Cleveland Robinson IV was born in Pensacola, Florida. His parents, G ...

, 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

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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 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, appointed mayor in 1921, a span of 101 years.

References

External links

Campaign Website
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Early life and career

Mayor of Pensacola

2022 Pensacola mayoral election

Mayor of Pensacola

See also

References

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