Doug Ducey Net Worth, Family, Wife, Education, Children, Age, Biography, Political Career

Doug Ducey Biography

Douglas Anthony Ducey Jr. is an American businessman and politician serving as the 23rd and current governor of Arizona since 2015. He previously was the CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, a sequence of frozen dessert parlors based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

A member of the Republican Party , Ducey was Arizona treasurer from 2011 to 2015. On November 4, 2014, he was elected to the governorship, he took office on January 5, 2015. He was reelected in 2018.

Ducey graduated from St. Johns Jesuit highschool in 1982 and moved to Arizona to attend Arizona State University (ASU) while performing at Hensley & Co., the Anheuser-Busch distributor owned by the family of Cindy McCain. He graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science degree in finance.

The Duceys purchased land in Paradise Valley, Arizona in 2005, had a house built there, and listed the house purchasable in late 2019 at an selling price of $8.75 million.

Doug Ducey Net Worth

Doug Ducey Net Worth is $ 5 Million in 2022.

Doug Ducey Family, Parents

Doug Ducey was born Douglas Anthony Roscoe Jr. in Toledo, Ohio, where he was raised. hes the son of Madeline Scott and Douglas Roscoe, a former member of the Toledo local department.

His parents divorced and in 1975 his mother married businessman Michael Ducey, to whom she remained married until 1981. Michael Ducey adopted Douglas and his siblings in 1976, Douglass surname was legally changed to his adoptive fathers.

Doug Ducey Wife, Children

Ducey met his wife, Angela, while attending Arizona State University. They sleep in Paradise Valley with their three sons, Jack, Joe and Sam.

Doug Ducey Career and Achievement

Business

Ducey joined Procter & Gamble after graduating from ASU and began a career in sales and marketing. From 1995 to 2007, Ducey was the CEO of Cold Stone Creamery. When he and his business partner sold the company in 2007, it had over 1,400 locations in the United States and ten other countries. After the company was sold to Kahala, Ducey left the organization due to allegations of franchise mismanagement.

From 2008 to 2012, he was the company's lead investor and chairman of the board. In terms of Small Business Administration loan defaults, Cold Stone Creamery franchises were among the ten worst franchise brands.

State Treasurer of Arizona (2011–2015)

Ducey was elected Treasurer of Arizona in 2010, succeeding Martin. Ducey oversaw over $12 billion in state assets as Arizona's chief banker and investment officer, as well as serving as an investment manager for local governments. The Treasurer of Arizona is the chairman of the State Board of Investment and the State Loan Commission, as well as the state surveyor general and a member of the State Land Selection Board. Ducey also served as the National Association of State Treasurers' western region vice chairman and as president of the Western State Treasurers Association.

Governor of Arizona (2015–Present)

2014 Campaign

In July 2013, Ducey filed the paperwork required to investigate the possibility of running for governor. At a rally in downtown Phoenix on February 19, 2014, he formally announced his intention to run for office.

Several conservative leaders, including Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, as well as Governor Scott Walker and former Senator Jon Kyl, have endorsed him. Ducey won the Republican nomination in the August primary and was later endorsed by Arizona's outgoing governor, Jan Brewer, as well as Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake and other Republicans in the state's Congressional delegation. Several organizations, including Arizona Right to Life and, as a result, Concerned Women for America, endorsed Ducey.

In the November 4 election, Ducey defeated Democrat Fred DuVal and Libertarian Barry Hess.

During Ducey's campaign, press reports revealed that several of his relatives in Toledo were involved in Ohio gangland. There was no evidence that Ducey profited from or engaged in criminal activity, according to the investigation. He refused to comment.

Tenure

On January 5, 2015, Ducey was sworn into office. In an attempt to balance the state budget, he instituted a state employee freeze shortly after taking office. Ducey signed a $9.1 billion budget in March 2015 that eliminated the state's $1.5 billion deficit by cutting spending without raising taxes. Since 2015, Ducey has released budget proposals for each fiscal year.

Ducey signed an education bill on January 15, 2015, requiring high school students to pass the U.S. citizenship test in order to graduate, making Arizona the first state to require this.

On March 30, 2015, Ducey vetoed HB2150, an amendment to an animal cruelty law that could have excluded livestock animals from protection under the law, and HB2410, which could have prohibited police departments from establishing traffic citation quotas.

Ducey signed SB1367 on March 31, 2017, requiring doctors to treat babies born alive during abortions or induced early deliveries. Late-term abortions had previously been performed in rare circumstances where the baby's and thus the mother's life was in danger. Opponents of the bill claimed that the new restrictions would force doctors to provide unnecessary treatment to babies who were not expected to measure.

Ducey signed a serious school voucher expansion bill on April 6, 2017, extending eligibility to every Arizona student.

On September 4, 2018, it was announced that Ducey had appointed former U.S. Senator Jon Kyl to fill the vacancy left by John McCain's death. Kyl resigned from the Senate on New Year's Eve, 2018, and Ducey replaced him with former Congresswoman Martha McSally.

Ducey was appointed to the bipartisan Council of Governors by US President Donald Trump on Washington's Birthday, 2019.

Ducey signed legislation in 2021 that could prevent mail-in voters from correcting missing signatures on their ballots after polling day.

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