Kay Ivey to be sworn in for second term as Alabama governor

Kay Ivey to be sworn in for second term as Alabama governor

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey will be inaugurated to her second term in office Monday, Jan. 16.

She and other constitutional officers will be sworn in at 10 a.m. in Montgomery on the steps of the state Capitol.

Earlier in the morning, Ivey will lead a prayer service at First Baptist Church in Montgomery, where she attends services.

She is Alabama’s first female governor to serve two terms. Lurleen Wallace, wife of Gov. George Wallace, served as governor from 1967-68.

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Ivey became state treasurer in 2002. She was elected lieutenant governor in 2010, the first Republican woman to hold the office. She became governor in 2017 after the resignation of Gov. Robert Bentley.

In 2018, she was elected to her first full term in office and won reelection again in November.

“There is no doubt the best is yet to come,” the governor said during a rally at a banquet hall in downtown Montgomery Nov. 8 before dropping her catchphrase to loud applause: “We all know, there is no step too high for a high stepper.”

Key efforts during her terms include:

  • Passing a gas tax to pay for infrastructure
  • Directing record amounts of funding to education
  • Overseeing high employment rates
  • Overseeing efforts to attract the Space Force Command, manufacturing and automotive jobs

Ivey grew up in Wilcox County.