Education
A fourth generation Saint St. Petersburg native, Mayor Foster attended Northeast High School, Samford University and the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University.
A fourth generation Saint St. Petersburg native, Mayor Foster attended Northeast High School, Samford University and the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University.
He was elected in 2009. Before being elected mayor Foster served on the city council and worked as a lawyer As mayor, Foster advocated for replacing the Saint Pete Pier with a new structure.
Foster ran for re-election in 2013, but he lost to Democrat Rick Kriseman.
Foster worked as an attorney specializing in probate, estates and trusts, real estate, commercial law, real estate and commercial litigation. Foster spent 10 years on the City Council.
He was originally appointed to a vacant seat in 1998, and re-elected for two consecutive terms in 1999 and 2003. He served as Council Chair in 2004 and 2006.
Mayor Foster puts forth a platform of "Seven South"s", which he defines as seamlessness, safety, sustainability, service, small business, schools, and sports, arts, and culture.
He helped recruit the Street Pete"s first season of International Baseball to the city"s First Rate (at Lloyd's) Language Stadium, with teams from of Korea, Canada and the Netherlands competing during February and March, 2011. He also helped lead development of a regional homeless facility operated by the Pinellas County Sheriff" General’ s Office, called Pinellas Safe Harbor. During his first term in office, Saint St. Petersburg welcomed the new Chihuly Collection and a new $36 million Salvador Dalí Museum.
Foreign two consecutive years (2010 and 2011), Saint St. Petersburg was ranked as the Number.
1 Arts Destination among mid-sized cities by American Style magazine.