Alex Sink

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Adelaide "Alex" Sink is Chief Financial Officer for the state of Florida.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Candidate for Chief Financial Officer - 2006 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Early life

Raised in North Carolina, Sink is a graduate of Wake Forest University. After graduating with a degree in math, she taught in West Africa for three years.

[edit] Career

Sink is a former president of Bank of America. She was appointed by former Governor Lawton Chiles to the Commission on Government Accountability to the People, and also served on Chiles’ Commission on Education.

Sink was vice-chair of Florida TaxWatch. Sink has also served with the Florida Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, the Beth El Farm Workers Ministry, and as Chairman of the Board of the United Way of Hillsborough County.

[edit] Candidate for Chief Financial Officer - 2006

Sink was the Democratic candidate for Florida's office of Chief Financial Officer. She defeated Republican Tom Lee 53.5 percent to 46.5 percent.^[1] Sink has been mentioned as a future candidate for Governor.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Florida Department of Financial Services official state site
• Follow the Money - Alex Sink 2006 campaign contributions

• Orlando Sentinel blog Orlando Sentinel blog about Sink

Current State Treasurers of the United States This box: view • talk • edit
AK: Patrick Galvin (R)* AL: Kay Ivey (R) AR: Martha Shoffner (D) AZ: Dean Martin (R) CA: Bill Lockyer (D) CO: Cary Kennedy (D) CT: Denise L. Nappier (D) DE: Jack Markell (D) FL: Alex Sink (D)* GA: Daniel Ebersole (R)	HI: Georgina K. Kawamura (R)* IA: Michael Fitzgerald (D) ID: Ron Crane (R) IL: Alexi Giannoulias (D) IN: Richard Mourdock (R) KS: Lynn Jenkins (R) KY: Jonathan Miller (D) LA: John N. Kennedy (R) MA: Timothy P. Cahill (D) MD: Nancy K. Kopp (R)	ME: David Lemoine (D) MI: Robert J. Kleine (D) MN: Tom Hanson (R)* MO: Sarah Steelman (R) MS: Tate Reeves (R) MT: Dan Bucks (D)* NC: Richard H. Moore (D) ND: Kelly Schmidt (R) NE: Shane Osborn (R) NH: Catherine Provencher (D)	NJ: Michellene Davis (D) NM: James Lewis (D) NV: Kate Marshall (D) NY: Thomas DiNapoli (D)* OH: Richard Cordray (D) OK: Scott Meacham (D) OR: Randall Edwards (D) PA: Robin Wiessmann (D) RI: Frank Caprio (D) SC: Converse Chellis (R)	SD: Vern Larson (R) TN: Dale Sims (D) TX: Susan Combs (R)* UT: Edward Alter (R) VA: Braxton Powell (D) VT: Jeb Spaulding (D) WA: Michael J. Murphy (D) WI: Dawn Sass (D) WV: John Perdue (D) WY: Joe Meyer (R)
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