Al Garza was appointed on July 10, 2000 as Director of Public Works.

He has been employed with the City of Pensacola for 34 years beginning in October 1974, excluding a short three-year stay with ECUA as a result of an area wide utility operations consolidation in 1981.

He has lived in the Pensacola area since 1965, when his family moved here from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Al is a graduate of W.J. Woodham H.S. 1968, Pensacola Junior College (A.A. Pre-Engineering) 1971, and the University of Florida (B.S Civil Engineering) 1974.

Licensed as a Professional Engineer (P.E.) with the State of Florida, and a senior member of the Florida Engineering Society for 35 years.

He enjoys youth and adult athletics, water sports, DeLuna Festival activities and extended distance bicycling (50 – 100 miles).

Al and his wife Marsha met in high school and were married in 1970. They have two sons Alfred III (1973) and Tony (1977), a law enforcement officer with the Pensacola Police department; and a daughter Melissa (1978) also a graduate of the University of Florida.