Alci Maldonado
Lakeland

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, women, the poor and immigrants. Commissioner Maldonado was an elected Commissioner on the Polk County Efficiency Commission (she was one of only two Hispanic-American Commissioners) and she currently serves on the Executive Board of Lakeland Vision.   A University of Miami Alumna, Commissioner Maldonado grew up in Miami, Florida and by profession, she is an Interior Designer but dedicates much of her time to charity. She is a long time volunteer for 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.   Commissioner Alci Maldonado is the current Republican National Hispanic Assembly National Chairman. A veteran Republican activist, she has served with and has managed political campaigns for candidates for local, county, state and federal office. 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. Commissioner Maldonado managed the 2004, 2006 and 2008 Polk County campaigns of former US Senator Mel Martinez, former Governor Charlie Crist and Republican Presidential nominee Senator John McCain, respectively. Commissioner Maldonado was a delegate to the 2008 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota and was co-founder of the Frederick Douglass Black Republican Club of Central Florida (the first black Republican club in Central Florida) and the founder of the RNHA Polk County, Florida chapter.  Commissioner Maldonado was nominated by the Republican National Committee to the Women’s Summit and she was inducted into the Kitchen Cabinet, a national conservative women’s organization. In 2010, Commissioner Maldonado was recognized by the Orlando chapter of the Republican Women’s Network as an outstanding Republican in Florida.   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.