Jesse Scheckner
Two-time Boca Raton Council member Andy Thomson wants to keep serving the city after next year’s election, but in a higher office.
Thompson has filed to run for Mayor. He said his public and private experience have him “prepared to hit the ground running” his first day in the office.
“As someone who lives, works, and raises a family, I’ve experienced the full spectrum of life in Boca Raton,” Thomson said in a statement.
“I’m running for mayor to keep Boca moving forward, to preserve what makes it special, and to ensure that every resident has a voice in shaping our future.”
A Georgia Tech grad and former college football player, Thomson, 42, earned his law degree at the University of Miami and practices at Baritz Colman Richman & Harris LLP in Boca Raton. He also teaches state and local government at Florida Atlantic University and has served on the Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency board, multiple city advisory boards and nonprofit boards throughout the region.
Thomson served from 2018-2022 in Seat A of the Boca Raton City Council. After two years away, he won the panel’s Seat D with 62% of the vote in March 2024. He ran on a platform prioritizing neighborhood policing, sustainable transportation and overseeing responsible, well-managed city growth.
The race showed he was a capable fundraiser; by a week before Election Day last year, he had raised $134,000, dwarfing the war chest of his lone opponent.
Thompson is running to succeed Mayor Scott Singer, who must leave office due to term limits. He’ll face at least one opponent: fellow Democrat Bernard Korn, a former police officer and teacher who previously mounted two unsuccessful campaigns for Seat C on the Council.
Korn, 70, filed to run Tuesday, one day before Thomson entered the race.
The Boca Raton election is on March 10, 2026.
