Carolyn Mason was elected to the Sarasota County Commission
in 2008.
Previously she served on the Sarasota City Commission from 1999
to 2003 and as Mayor from 2001 to 2003.
Mason has been employed by Habitat for Humanity Sarasota and
by the Salvation Army, where she was Director of Family Support
and Intake Manager.
She is a former chair of the Newtown Front Porch Neighborhood
Revitalization Council. She has served as chair of the Sarasota
County Neighborhood Grants Advisory Committee and as a member of
the Florida Historic Preservation Advisory Committee.
Mason also has served as vice-chair of the Urban
Administration and Transportation Committee of the Florida
League of Cities, and as a member of the Southwest Florida
Health Planning Council, the City of Sarasota’s Civil Service
Board, the Community Action Agency Board, the Children and the
Youth Services Advisory Council.
Carolyn Mason has been recognized with many awards including
the Human Development Award for Community Service by the
Westcoast Center for Human Services, the Woman of Color Award,
the NAACP Freedom Award, the “She Knows Where She's Going Award”
from Girls Inc. and the Freedom Fighter Award from the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference Manatee/Sarasota Chapter.
Carolyn Mason was born in Sarasota and has three children, 14
grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. She is a graduate of
the Sarasota Community School.
