Mayor
Wil Kennedy
Wil was born to Ken and Barbara Kennedy and raised on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. He graduated from Moss Point High School with Honors and attended Alcorn State University on an Academic Scholarship. After graduating from Alcorn, he started in public service at the State Attorney General’s office as an Investigator in the Consumer Protection Division. He spent a Legislative session working at the State Capitol prior to joining Ainsworth-MacAllan and Associates(formerly Ainsowrth-Meany) and joining their Texas operations handling Marketing and Field Services for School Districts across the State of Texas. He subsequently joined DeWitt-Lavaca Special Education Cooperative in Cuero, TX as School Health and Related Services Administrator and Network Manager. While there, he earned his MBA from the University of Houston-Victoria. Soon after completing his MBA, he joined Merrill Lynch as a Financial Advisor in their Edgewater Beach office prior to working for the Southeast Louisiana Council of the Boy Scouts of America. After brief stints in those arenas, he found his calling in the Offshore Drilling arena working for almost 2 decades starting as a utility hand and mustering out as a Drilling Superintendent. Currently, he works as a Consults on Medicare Benefits and Income Taxes.
Wil and his wife, Undrea, have twin sons: Willie and Amos and have been here Brazoria County since 2006 and in the Iowa Colony development of Meridiana since 2019.
LIFE MEMBER OF ASU ALUMNI FOUNDATION
LIFE MEMBER OF OMEGA PSI PHI FRATERNITY, INC.
WINDSOR VILLAGE CHURCH FAMILY, Ministry Leader and Member
UNITED METHODIST MEN GOLDEN, UMC
FATHER’s AUXILIARY JACK AND JILL SOUTHBELT HOUSTON CHAPTER