HUNTSVILLE — Madison County Commission Chairman Mac McCutcheon has announced his candidacy for the office he has held since 2023. The general election is Nov. 5.
McCutcheon was appointed in January 2023 by Gov. Kay Ivey to complete the four-year term of U.S. Rep. Dale Strong (R-Monrovia), who left upon being elected to Congress in 2022.
Although November will be his first time on the ballot as chairman, McCutcheon served in the Alabama Legislature for 16 years and was Speaker of the House from 2016-22.
McCutcheon said his 2024 campaign slogan, “Mac’s Back,” speaks to his time in Montgomery and returning home in Madison County to continue a career in public service.
With a crowd of family, friends and supporters on hand Monday, McCutcheon said he is running “because of you, the people of this county.”
“We have some tremendous people living in this county,” he said. “We have a great community here. And I say that not just from being here in the county and seeing just the county; I say that from the standpoint of being Speaker of the House, seeing 67 counties, looking at their leadership, looking at how things are done in those counties, looking at the local governments, and how they operated.”
An Army veteran, McCutcheon was a 25-year veteran of the Huntsville Police Department.
