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Mary Sheffield
Updated: 11:58 a.m. Monday: Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield officially confirmed her marriage in a statement on Rise Higher Detroit:
“Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield and her fiancé, Rickey Jackson, Jr., exchanged vows in a private ceremony over the weekend in Detroit,” the statement reads. “They are thrilled to begin their new life together while continuing their shared commitment to serving the City of Detroit.”
Updated: 8:56 p.m. Sunday: The Detroit Free Press reports that vendors unloaded hundreds of roses Sunday afternoon at The Godfrey hotel on Michigan Avenue in Corktown and that Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield's father Horace Sheffield III and Mary's Chief of Staff Brian White were spotted late Sunday afternoon entering the hotel stylishly dressed.
The Freep also reported that R&B singer-songwriter-producer Kem was expectted to perform at the event.
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Reported Saturday by Deadline Detroit Around 5 p.m.
Detroit Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield plans to marry on Sunday in Corktown in a private ceremony, sources tell Deadline Detroit.
Rickey Jackson Jr. (Linkedin photo)
The 38-year-old Detroit City Council president will marry Rickey Jackson Jr., who works for the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan as the program manager of Project Play, according to his LInkedin page.
Sheffield has kept the wedding plans and her private life under wraps.
In an Oct. 30 story in the Detroit Free Press, Violet Ikonomova wrote:
Sheffield wears an engagement ring, but says she’ll share more about that after the election.
Her chief of staff did not respond for comment.
Sheffield, who has served 12 years on Detroit City Council, was elected mayor in a landslide in November, beating Rev. Solomon Kinloch Jr., with 77 percent of the vote.
