Career
Formerly on Dover City Council, he was elected as the non-partisan Mayor of Dover, Delaware. Speed was Dover"s second full-time mayor. He resigned in July 2007 to accept a position with Delaware State University.
He spent 8 years as the Director of the Aviation Program at Delaware State University.
After successfully reviving and building the Aviation Program, Mr. Speed moved on from DSU to pursue a career as a commercial pilot.
Speed was born about 1963. After graduation from United States. Naval Academy in 1985, he served as an active duty Navy Officer from 1985 until 1994.
He retired as a Captain from the Navy Reserve in 2010.
He received his Master of Business Administration from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1993, and was self-employed as a realtor from 1994 until 2004. Dover, Delaware operates with a council-manager form of government. The mayor and nine council members serve two-year terms and hire a City Manager to manage municipal operations.
Speed was elected Dover 1st District Councilman in May 2001 and was the Mayor of Dover, Delaware from May 10, 2004.
Speed resigned from office, effective July 22, 2007, to accept a position as the Director of the Aviation Program at Delaware State University. In 2010, Speed campaigned for the Kent County Levy Court as a Republican, but lost the election.
Delaware State University
Delaware Historical Society website 505 Market Saint, Wilmington, Delaware (302) 655-7161. www.stevespeed.org.
