15 Facts About Tommy Battle

Tommy Battle attended the University of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa, to study business, where he participated in the Student Government Association and the debate team and joined the Alabama Republican Party.

Tommy Battle moved to Huntsville in 1980, where he became a real estate developer and was elected to one term on the city council from 1984 to 1988.

Tommy Battle left the city council to run for mayor, losing in a run-off against Democratic candidate Steve Hettinger in 1988.

Tommy Battle announced his mayoral candidacy against incumbent Loretta Spencer on March 26,2008.

Tommy Battle's policies were fiscal responsibility, free enterprise, education, and creating jobs.

On September 23,2015, Tommy Battle posted a statement confirming his running for a third term as mayor in 2016.

In 2015, Tommy Battle asked the city to buy body cameras for the Huntsville Police Department, at a cost of $1.2 million.

In 2016, Tommy Battle supported the arrival of Google Fiber to Huntsville.

Tommy Battle favored the city-wide of expansion of ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft in the city, and rewrote the vehicle for hire ordinance to allow their operation.

Tommy Battle pushed to prevent the bodycam footage from being released.

Fifteen Huntsville-area organizations, including the Alabama chapters of Southern Christian Leadership Conference and NAACP Youth Council, have denounced Mayor Tommy Battle's handling of the George Floyd protest that occurred in and around Big Spring Park on June 3,2020.

Tommy Battle unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for governor of Alabama in 2018 as an "outsider" candidate; he lost in the Republican primary to incumbent Kay Ivey.

Tommy Battle touted strong job growth under his tenure, as well as the city's top credit rating from credit rating agencies.

Tommy Battle married Eula Sammons, a kindergarten teacher at Monrovia Elementary, in 1988 they had one son, Andrew Tommy Battle.

Tommy Battle is a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church.