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Who Is Jane Castor Wife Or Partner? Meet Melanie Jean Bevan And Ana Cruz

Many people are waiting to find out who American politician and former police chief Jane Castor’s wife or partner is. Let’s find out Jane’s relationships with Melanie Bevan and Ana Cruz.

Jane Castor is the first openly homosexual person elected mayor of Tampa and the seventh openly LGBT person elected mayor of a municipality in Florida.

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Who Is Jane Castor Wife Or Partner?

Jane Castor is married to her wife, Ana Cruz. Previously, she was married to Melanie Jean Bevan.

Jane is the 59th mayor of Tampa, Florida. She is an American politician and a former police chief. 

From 2009 until 2015, Castor was the first woman and homosexual person to serve as Chief of Police of the Tampa Police Department. She was a Republican Party member until 2015 when she switched to the Democratic Party.

Castor joined the Tampa Police Department when she was 24 years old, in 1984. In 2005, she was promoted to assistant chief. She became chief in 2009 and remained in that position until her retirement in 2015.

Jane Castor & Melanie Bevan: Did They Get Separated?

In 2002, Jane Castor and Melanie Jean Bevan were married in a civil ceremony in Vermont, and they separated in 2008.

It’s unclear why Bevan waited so long to divorce ex-husband Castor, who is now running for mayor of Tampa and is largely regarded as the front-runner.

Bevan attempted to have certain jointly-owned assets divided and nonmarital assets declared entirely in a divorce complaint filed on July 9.

Melanie Jean Bevan Age & Sexuality

Melanie Jean Bevan is the current head of the Bradenton Police Department and former assistant chief of the St. Petersburg Police Department.

Bevan is also the ex-girlfriend of Castor, the 61-year-old former Tampa police chief with whom she has two sons.

Sergei and Seely Bevan, two adoptive brothers, were 18-year-old freshmen at Florida Gulf Coast University in April 2018, according to WFLA.

Who Is Jane Castor Dating Now?

Jane Castor was married to Ana Cruz in 2009, and they are still together.

Ana Cruz works at Ballard Partners in Tampa as a civil servant and lobbyist. She was the first Hispanic executive director of the Florida Democratic Party and worked as a spokesman for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 and 2016 presidential campaigns.

Cruz is recognized as “Tampa’s First Lady” and is Jane Castor’s partner. She is the managing partner of Ballard Partners, the largest bipartisan lobbying firm in Florida.

Ana handled her first campaign in 1968 and went on to work for Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Senator Bill Nelson in various capacities. Cruz served as the executive director of the Florida Democratic Party for two years, making her the youngest and first Hispanic to hold the position.