Alci Maldonado
Jacksonville

Commissioner Alci Maldonado is an outstanding Spanish-American Citizen of Polk County and the State of Florida. Commissioner Maldonado has organized and volunteered for a wide variety of charitable causes and community organizations, especially those which serve children, the poor and immigrants. Commissioner Maldonado is an elected Commissioner on the Polk County Efficiency Commission (she is one of only two Hispanic-American Commissioners).

A University of Miami Alumna, she grew up in Miami, Florida. By profession Commissioner Maldonado, is an Interior Designer but dedicates much of her time to charity. She is a long time volunteer of the United Methodist Church, especially with its Music Ministries to Children. Commissioner Maldonado has also volunteered with the Boy Scouts of America, has served as the Lakeland Senior High School Band Parents Head Chaperone and was a Board member of the Florida State University Parents Association.

A veteran Republican activist, she has served on political campaigns at all level of politics. She has volunteered, worked with, advised or has been the manager of political campaigns for over thirty years in Florida and has also worked with the Massachusetts Republican Party as a volunteer. She served as Hispanic Coalition Chair with the Bush-Cheney 2000 and 2004 Presidential Campaigns and with Governor Jeb Bush’s 1998 and 2002 Gubernatorial Campaigns. And the 2006 campaign of current Governor Charlie Christ.

Commissioner Maldonado has received awards and was featured in the Lakeland Magazine Fall 2004 Edition as one of Polk County’s Political “Movers and Shakers”. It has been said of Commissioner Maldonado that she has given Hispanic-Americans in Polk County a “voice” when none existed prior to her efforts on their behalf.

Commissioner Maldonado currently resides in Lakeland, Florida and of all her accomplishments she is proudest of her children; her two sons are attorneys, a daughter is a retail management professional and another daughter is a clinical psychologist.