Greg Reed to give up leadership position

November 11, 2024 – MONTGOMERY, AL – State Senator Greg Reed (R-Jasper) has announced that he will be giving up his role as Senate President Pro Tempore ahead of the 2025 legislative session.

Reed along with Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville), and Governor Kay Ivey (R) are effectively the three most powerful people in Alabama state government.

The Senate President Pro Tem. has enormous influence over what bills are considered, carried over, or passed in the Senate as well as which Senators sit on which committees.

There are rumors that Reed may be joining either the Ivey administration in an executive capacity or will join the Trump administration in some capacity. If Reed leaves the Senate, there will be a special election to fill the seat. The Republican Caucus will select their candidate for Senate President Pro Tempore. The frontrunner, if he seeks it, would seem to be Senate Majority Leader Steve Livingston (R-Scottsboro). While the Republicans have a super majority in the Senate, the full Senate has to vote on the President Pro Tempore.

Greg Reed was born in Jasper and grew up in Cordova in south Walker County. He is a graduate of Walker County public schools. He attended Walker College, which is now Bevill State Community College, before earning his bachelor's degree at the University of Alabama.

He and his wife, Mitsy Harbison, have three sons.

Greg and Mitsy are active members of the First Baptist Church of Jasper, where they teach Sunday school to young adults.

Reed was elected to the Alabama Senate in the Republican wave election of 2010. He is serving in his fourth term. In 2015, his Republican colleagues elected him Majority Leader of the Alabama Senate. In 2021, the Alabama Senate unanimously elected him President Pro Tempore of the Alabama State Senate replacing the retiring Sen. Del Marsh (R-Anniston).

Reed has been a very pro-gambling Senator – voting for several different casino bills over his tenure in the Senate.

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