Mayor Craig Thurmond was first elected to City Council is 2001, and served as Vice Mayor from 2003-07 and again from 2010-12.

Thurmond is a Tulsa native that served in the U.S. Marine Corps. During the Vietnam War and moved to Broken Arrow in 1977.
He has been, and currently serves on, many boards in the area including:

• The Tulsa County Conservation District Board of Directors since 1997
• City of Broken Arrow’s representative on the Metropolitan Environmental Trust Board of Trustees
• Indian Nations Council of Government.
• National League of Cities Community and Economic Development Steering Committee
• Thurmond helped form and sits on a National Committee on Regulatory Reform which focuses on reducing Federal Government regulations.
• And many other non-profit boards

Thurmond has worked in the construction industry for 32 years and owns a small business, Thurmond Consulting, located on Main Street in Broken Arrow.

His wife, Mary Jane, passed away from breast cancer in 2010. His son, Gary, was a paramedic with EMSA for three years and served on the Tulsa County SWAT team for one year before being deployed to Afghanistan in 2012. Gary is currently serving as a combat medic.

Thurmond also has two adopted children and three step sons, Scott, John and Mark Gibson.