Carlos_Hernandez_(politician)
Carlos Hernández (politician)
American politician (born 1961)
Carlos Hernández (born March 8, 1961, in Camagüey, Cuba) is a Cuban-born American politician. Hernández served as the mayor of Hialeah, Florida, from May 2011 to November 2021.[3] He became acting mayor in 2011 upon the resignation of his predecessor, Julio Robaina, who left the Hialeah mayoral office to pursue an unsuccessful campaign for Mayor of Miami-Dade County.[3]
Hernández was raised in Hialeah, Florida. He received a bachelor's degree in organizational leadership from St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens.[citation needed]
Hernández was elected to the Hialeah city council in November 2005.[3] He was further elected council president in 2007 and again in 2009 by the members of the council.[3] Under the Hialeah city charter, Hernández, who was still council president in 2011, became Mayor of Hialeah upon the resignation of former Mayor Julio Robaina in 2011.[3]
Carlos Hernández won a full term in the 2011 Hialeah mayoral election.[4]