A Little About Councilman Jerry Jennings

Jerry was born in New York City and grew up in the “Big Apple”. Subsequent to military service he moved to Huntsville Alabama in 1958 for a temporary assignment of one year. That temporary relocation has extended for 46 plus years. He met his wife Gail in Huntsville and started a family of three children, a daughter and two sons. Jerry was widowed in 1978, remarried in 1989 and was divorced in 1992. He is currently single. and his children are grown and out on their own. Jerry is a member of St. John Catholic Church of Madison .

He has been a resident of Madison for 15 years and resides in Edgewater subdivision. Prior to moving to Madison , he lived in North Alabama for 31 years. He retired from the local Chrysler Corporation Electronics Manufacturing and Design facility as an Engineering Manager in 1996 after 36 years of service. During his working career he traveled extensively to both south east asia and europe for purposes of developing best in class international suppliers of electronic semiconductors required by the chrysler huntsville manufacturing facility.

For the past 25 years he has been active in many civic activities that include local homeowners associations; as an instructor at the Academy of Lifetime Learning at the University of Alabama Huntsville campus; as a promotor of Alabama Constitutional reform ; and a member of the Edgewater Owners Association Architectural Committee and Long Range Planning Committee.

His election in 2004 as Councilman for District #3 redirected his life from that of a content retireee to that of a Councilman representing his district and the city of Madison as a whole. To date that transformation has been very challanging with an expectation of making positive contributions to the efficient and harmonious goverance of the city of Madison.

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