Tallahassee Elected Officials and How to Reach Them

The Tallahassee City Commission has five members in October 2026: Mayor John Dailey in Seat 4, Mayor Pro Tem Curtis Richardson in Seat 2, and Commissioners Jacqueline "Jack" Porter, Jeremy Matlow and Dianne Williams-Cox.

The seat numbers come from the city commission page, which lists Porter in Seat 1, Richardson in Seat 2, Matlow in Seat 3, Dailey in Seat 4 and Williams-Cox in Seat 5 (City of Tallahassee). The City Leadership page shows the same five names with Curtis Richardson as Mayor Pro Tem (City Leadership).

Every Tallahassee commissioner, the mayor included, serves a four-year term, and the terms are staggered so that elections fall in even-numbered years: two seats in presidential election years, and two other seats plus the mayor in mid-term years (City of Tallahassee).

The Tallahassee mayor is described by the city as a leadership mayor who presides at commission meetings and acts as ceremonial head of government. The position has no veto power and represents only one vote on the city commission, while the mayor and commission together set city policies and city tax rates (City of Tallahassee).

Tallahassee commission seats have no districts: every voter who lives in the city can vote in each City Commission contest, and members take office on the 13th day after the General Election. The Leon County Supervisor of Elections lists the salary for each seat, the mayor included, as $99,167 (Leon County Supervisor of Elections).

Day-to-day administration at Tallahassee City Hall belongs to four officers appointed by the City Commission, led by City Manager Karen Jumonville.

The other three appointed officials are Inspector General Dennis R. Sutton, Treasurer-Clerk James Cooke IV and City Attorney Amy M. Toman, all listed as appointed officials on the Tallahassee City Leadership page (City of Tallahassee). The city describes them as four officers appointed by the city commission to administer the duties of the city, and it asks departments to contact the Treasurer-Clerk's Office before establishing or revising a commission policy (City of Tallahassee).

The Tallahassee City Commission office is at 300 South Adams Street, Tallahassee, FL 32301, and its phone is 850-891-8181; the City Leadership page also offers a Contact All Commissioners at Once option (City Leadership).

Regular Tallahassee City Commission meetings are typically held twice a month, and the city publishes agendas for the commission, Blueprint 2000, the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), the Capital Region Transportation Planning Agency and the Independent Ethics Board through BoardDocs, usually online the Friday before a scheduled meeting (City of Tallahassee). The section guides on charter officers and on speaking at a commission meeting cover those steps in detail.

Leon County has its own seven-member commission, with five district commissioners and two at-large commissioners, and Christian Caban of District 2 is the 2025 to 2026 Chairman.

David T. O’Keefe of District 5 is the 2025 to 2026 Vice Chairman, and the at-large seats are held by Carolyn D. Cummings and Nick Maddox, (Leon County). All Leon County voters can vote for the two at-large members, the other five commissioners are elected by district, and members take office on the 2nd Tuesday after the General Election (Leon County Supervisor of Elections).

The Leon County Commission offices are at 301 S. Monroe Street, 5th Floor, Tallahassee, FL 32301, phone (850) 606-5302 (Leon County). The County Administrator is Vincent S. Long, reached through the county line at 850-606-5300 (Leon County).

A Tallahassee voter can vote in every City Commission contest and, as a Leon County voter, for the two at-large county members plus the commissioner of the voter's own district, which appears on the voter information card (Leon County Supervisor of Elections). The Leon County Commission guide covers its meetings and districts in more depth.

Tallahassee residents, as Leon County voters, elect five countywide constitutional officers, from Supervisor of Elections Mark Earley to Sheriff Walt McNeil.

The five are Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller Gwen Marshall, Property Appraiser Akin Akinyemi, Sheriff Walt McNeil, Supervisor of Elections Mark S. Earley and Tax Collector Doris Maloy, each on a 4-year term with the next election in 2028 (Leon County Supervisor of Elections).

The Leon County Supervisor of Elections office, headed by Mark S. Earley, counted 184,627 active registered voters on October 15, 2026: 88,270 Democratic, 54,667 Republican and 41,690 listed as Others (Leon County Supervisor of Elections).

Leon County Property Appraiser Akin Akinyemi heads the office that mails Truth in Millage (TRIM) notices of proposed property taxes to owners each August, and the office reports 112,526 total parcels in Leon County (Leon County Property Appraiser).

The Leon County Property Appraiser parcel summary, drawn from the Leon County 2025 Certified Tax Roll, counts 76,105 single family residential parcels, the largest category among the 112,526 parcels countywide, along with 4,912 condominiums, 2,337 multi-family parcels and 1,522 agricultural parcels (Leon County Property Appraiser). The same office explains that a TRIM notice is a summary of a property's proposed values, tax rates and estimated taxes.

The Leon County Tax Collector office answers at 850.606.4700 and keeps office hours of 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday, excluding holidays (Leon County Tax Collector).

Public schools in Tallahassee are run by Leon County Schools under Superintendent Rocky Hanna and Deputy Superintendent Dr. Michelle Gayle. The five School Board seats are held by Alva Swafford Smith (District 1), Rosanne Wood (District 2), Darryl Jones (District 3), Laurie Lawson Cox (District 4) and Marcus Nicolas (District 5) (Leon County Schools). The Supervisor of Elections lists the District 1, 3 and 5 School Board seats as next up for election in 2026 and the District 2 and 4 seats in 2028 (Leon County Supervisor of Elections).

Tallahassee and the rest of Leon County sit in Florida Senate District 3, held by Senator Corey Simon, a 13-county district that also covers Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette, Liberty, Madison, Suwannee, Taylor and Wakulla counties.

Senator Simon keeps his Tallahassee office at 303 Senate Building, 404 South Monroe Street, Tallahassee, FL 32399-1100, phone (850) 487-5003 (The Florida Senate).

Senator Corey Simon, who represents Tallahassee in District 3, is a Republican, and for the 2024 to 2026 Senate term the Florida Senate lists him as Chair of the Education Pre-K 12 committee and Vice Chair of Education Postsecondary (The Florida Senate).

In Congress, Leon County voters in U.S. House District 2 are represented by Neal Dunn, a Republican whose 2-year term is up for election in 2026 (Leon County Supervisor of Elections). Representative Dunn lists a Tallahassee office at 300 South Adams Street, Tallahassee, FL 32301, phone (850) 891-8610, alongside his Panama City and Washington offices (U.S. Representative Neal Dunn). That is the same street address the city lists for the City Commission office (City Leadership).

Three Tallahassee City Commission seats, the mayor's Seat 4 among them, have their next election in 2026.

The Leon County Supervisor of Elections lists Seat 4 (Mayor John Dailey), Seat 3 (Jeremy Matlow) and Seat 5 (Dianne Williams-Cox) with a next election in 2026, while Seats 1 and 2 are next elected in 2028 (Leon County Supervisor of Elections).

The election days for 2026 are the August 18 Primary Election and the November 3 General Election. For the General Election, the voter registration deadline was October 5, the deadline to request a mailed ballot is October 22, early voting runs October 19 to November 1, and Election Day is November 3 (Leon County Supervisor of Elections).

That matches the staggered four-year schedule the city publishes, with two seats elected in presidential election cycles and two others plus the mayor in mid-term cycles (City of Tallahassee). The roster on this page reflects officeholders in October 2026; the City Leadership page is the place to confirm names after the new terms begin.

The Leon County Property Appraiser notes that the Florida Legislature has proposed a constitutional amendment that would make several changes to Florida's property tax system, and the office posts information for voters to review before they vote (Leon County Property Appraiser).

For a resident deciding whom to call, the practical order in Tallahassee is simple: city services and city taxes go to the City Commission office or the City Manager at 300 South Adams Street; Leon County Commission business goes to the district commissioner at 301 S. Monroe Street; assessments go to the Property Appraiser; and ballots go to the Supervisor of Elections, whose Election Guide for the 2026 General Election covers when, where and how to vote (Leon County Supervisor of Elections).

This guide names officeholders only, never candidates. Last verified: October 15, 2026, against the City of Tallahassee, Leon County, Leon County Supervisor of Elections, Leon County Property Appraiser, Leon County Tax Collector, Leon County Schools, Florida Senate and U.S. House websites.