Wayman Newton, current mayor of Tarrant City, Alabama, is an attorney first elected in 2020 to the seat formerly held for four terms (sixteen years) by Loxcil Tuck.
Newton grew up in Birmingham’s Collegeville neighborhood and currently resides within the southern area of Tarrant City. Newton graduated from the Alabama School of Fine Arts located within downtown Birmingham, Alabama in 1998 and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in political science at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. Newton later obtained a juris doctorate degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2007. Newton was employed as a commercial real estate attorney with Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania before returning to Alabama to open his own practice, Community Lawyers USA in 2010. Newton is also a real estate investor, specializing in rehabilitation and affordable housing.
Newton has served a single term (five years including an extra year due to state law revisions) as the mayor of Tarrant City, Alabama and is seeking a second term to continue to provide superior service to the citizens of Tarrant City, Alabama.
Tarrant City is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, bordering Birmingham’s north side. At the 2020 census, the population was 6,124. It is home to the ABC Coke plant owned by the Drummond Company, “the largest single producer of foundry coke in the United States”, which provides a large source of the city’s revenue.
Tarrant uses the mayor-council form of government. The city council consists of five members. The city is divided into five geographic districts with each one electing a council member to represent it on the city council. The election cycle for the mayor and council members is every four years.