Birth Date: | [1] |
Birth Place: | Haiti |
Party: | Democratic |
Office: | Mayor of North Miami, Florida |
Predecessor: | Andre Pierre |
Successor: | Philippe Bien-Aime (Acting) Smith Joseph (elected) |
Term Start: | 2013 |
Term End: | 2014 |
Residence: | North Miami, Florida |
Lucie Tondreau (born 1959/1960) is an American politician and social and immigrant activist who served as the first female and the third Haitian-American mayor of North Miami, Florida
Tondreau was born in Haiti but moved to Montreal, Canada in 1967 when she was seven.[2] [3] In 1981, she moved to New York City where she became active in the Haitian community.[2] In 1984, she moved to Miami where she worked with the Haitian Refugee Center and served as a board member of the Haitian American Community of Dade County (HACAD), the Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Florida Commission on the Status of Women, the Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition, the Miami Art in Public Places, and the Haitian Political Action Committee.[2] In 1999, she founded the public relations firm, Tondreau & Associates.[2] She worked as radio personality.[4]
She was one of two finalists in the non-partisan 2013 North Miami mayoral election,[5] a city where 1/3rd of the population was Haitian-American.[4] On June 4, 2013, Tondreau was elected after a runoff election between her and former mayor Kevin Burns.[6] On May 21, 2014, she was suspended as Mayor of North Miami after allegations of mortgage fraud.[7] Vice Mayor Philippe Bien-Aime was named acting mayor.