PERSON: Carlos Gimenez

U.S. House of Representatives

Member of Congress

Carlos Antonio Giménez (/hiˈmɛnɛz/ hee-MEH-nez; born January 17, 1954) is a Cuban-born American retired firefighter and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida’s 28th congressional district. He was redistricted from Florida’s 26th congressional district in 2022. A Republican, he served as mayor of Miami-Dade County from 2011 to 2020. He served as a Miami-Dade County Commissioner from 2003 to 2011, and was the fire chief of the City of Miami Fire Department.

Giménez supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, but in 2020 he ran as a supporter of President Donald Trump and was endorsed by him.

Giménez serves as one of the Republican assistant whips under Steve Scalise.

Giménez was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1954 to ranchers from the Oriente province. In 1960, his family immigrated to the U.S. in the wake of the Cuban Revolution, settling in what became Miami’s Little Havana.

Giménez attended Columbus High School near Miami and earned a bachelor’s degree in public administration from Barry University. In 1993, he completed the Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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