From top left, GOP candidates James Berretta, Joseph Breault, Randy Brinson, Mo Brooks, Mary Maxwell, Roy Moore, Bryan Peeples, Trip Pittman and Luther Strange; Democrat candidates Will Boyd, Vann Caldwell, Jason Fisher, Michael Hansen, Doug Jones, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Charles Nana. 

Voters will go to the polls Tuesday to elect a GOP and Democrat nominee for the U.S. Senate. Here’s a look at the candidates. 

Republican

James Paul Beretta

Beretta was born and raised in a Rhode Island but has called Alabama home for 25 years. He owns a private medical practice in Pelham and has held leadership roles in leading Birmingham area hospitals. If elected, he wants to address issues of health care, education, small business owners, children’s hunger, women’s health coverage, immigration, and gender and race equality.

Joseph F. Breault

Breault is a chaplain at the Holm Center at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery and the officer training school. Before moving to Alabama, he was a chaplain at the VA hospital in Salt Lake City and was a chaplain in the Air Force Reserve in Colorado. Hailing from New Hampshire, Breault and his family live in Prattville. He unsuccessfully ran for the Utah House of Representatives last year against an incumbent Democrat.

Randy Brinson

Brinson is a Montgomery-based medical doctor, Air Force Veteran, business owner, foreign policy advisor and lay minister. He started Redeem the Vote to help reelect George W. Bush, and in 2008, Brinson advised former Governor Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign. In 2010, Brinson formed Panamerican Marketing Group, LLC, to promote Alabama products overseas and enhance Alabama’s economy through trade and exports. Over the past five years, he has promoted health care, trade, economic activity, and education with an emphasis on Biblical literacy, and Christian values across the globe.

Mo Brooks

Since his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010, Brooks has pushed for a sustainable, balanced federal budget, ending illegal immigration and maintaining a strong national defense and economy. He was a founding member of the Freedom Caucus, a group of fiscal and social conservative members.

A former Tuscaloosa County prosecutor, Brooks went on to serve eight years in the Alabama House of Representatives beginning in 1982 where he was just one of eleven Republican legislators out of 140 and the only elected Republican legislator north of Birmingham.

In 1996, Brooks unseated an eight-year incumbent Republican for the Madison County Commission and went on to win the general election and went to serve four terms. And one of his former jobs includes a fill-in radio talk show host for WVNN in 1990 until the new host arrived — “a skinny kid named Sean Hannity.”

Dom Gentile

Dropped out of race, endorsed Brooks.

Mary Maxwell

A self-proclaimed states rights fanatic, Maxwell’s platform includes avoiding war abroad and regime changes, support for the rights to marry and carry and opposition to mandatory vaccinations and privatizing prisons. Born and raised in Massachusetts, she moved to Australia with her husband where she earned a doctorate in politics and law. She’s published several books and articles, and she unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2006.

Roy S. Moore

Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore first gained notoriety as a circuit judge when he hung a plaque of the Ten Commandments in his Etowah County courtroom. He was then elected chief justice, but later removed from office when he refused to take down a Ten Commandments monument he installed in the Alabama Judicial Building. Voters returned him to the state supreme court as chief justice in 2012 where he face unprecedented budget cuts for the judiciary. But he was removed from office again in 2016, after he issued an order to state probate judges contradicting a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage.

Bryan Peeples

Born in Auburn, Peeples is a business consultant who is campaigning on a platform that includes term limits, tax cuts and reforms in medical malpractice, health insurance, prescription drugs and corporate and small business tax. If elected, Peeples promises to donate a portion of his pay to charities and non-profits and establish a scholarship program.

Trip Pittman

Representing Baldwin County in the Alabama Senate, Pittman touts is his business experience as founder of the Pittman Tractor Company and hopes to be the first non-lawyer in more than a century to represent Alabama in the U.S. Senate. As a state senator he’s helped pass legislation concerning Second Amendment rights, teacher tenure reform and stricter illegal immigration laws.

Luther Strange

Prior to his appointment to the U.S. Senate, Strange was the Alabama Attorney General where he oversaw the conviction and removal from office of Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard and worked extensively on the historic Deepwater Horizon Oil spill litigation. He’s campaigning on a platform that includes repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, securing the border and enforcing immigration laws and protecting the Second Amendment.

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Democrat

Will Boyd

Boyd, pastor at St. Mark’s Missionary Baptist Church in Florence, is running on a platform that includes growing the middle class, protecting the poor, fighting for women’s rights — including equal pay and supporting health programs — and seeking justice for all. Boyd previously ran for the U.S. House of Representative Fifth District and U.S. Senate for Illinois and has served as a Greenville, Illionis City Councilman.

He’s served as Chairman of the Lauderdale County Democratic Executive Committee and on the Health Care Authority of Lauderdale County and the City of Florence’s Board of Directors.

Vann Caldwell

Caldwell is a Talladega County constable and owner of Caldwell Protection, LLC. He ran for mayor of Talladega at age 19 before focusing on his education, studying political science, history, public administration and criminal justice. He previously worked for the University of Alabama’s Public Safety Department for six years. If elected, he wants to focus on economic growth with balance to protect the environment, improving education for all and supporting military and homeland security.

Jason F. Fisher

Hailing from Iowa, Fisher moved to Mobile in 2004 and currently works as a vice president and consultant at Ruffalo Noel Levitz, a direct marketing firm specializing in nonprofit development. He was previously a development officer at Mobile’s Spring Hill College, and earned a master’s degree from the Clinton School of Public Service in Arkansas. This is his first time to run for public office and reforming the country’s health care system is his top priority if elected. Closing the wealth gap, improving schools, promoting disability rights and supporting paid flex time and leave for single and working parents as well as equal pay.

Michael Hansen

Hansen is an executive director of a Birmingham-based nonprofit health advocacy organization who was raised in Memphis. He moved to Alabama to pursue my master’s degree at the University of Alabama. He’s running on a platform that includes investments in high-paying jobs in science, technology, healthcare, and clean energy, raising the minimum wage and guaranteeing Alabama workers receive a living wage. He also supports universal health care, debt-free college, LGBTQ equality rights and a sustainable environment.

Doug Jones

The son of a U.S. Steel worker and grandson to a steelworker and coal miner, Jones is proud of his working class roots. The Fairfield native went on to college at the University of Alabama and then his law degree from Cumberland at Samford University. Jones served as staff counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for the late U.S. Senator Howell Heflin. After working as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Birmingham, he was appointed and confirmed to be the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama.

His platform includes ensuring quality education for all students to provide skilled workers to grow the economy, pushing for a living wage, advocating for a program for college students to work in public service for reduced college costs, supporting Planned Parenthood and equal pay, and retaining positive aspects of the Affordable Care Act and revising parts to benefit all Americans. Jones is married to the former Louise New of Cullman and together they have three children and two grandchildren.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

While his name might lead you to believe he is a member of the Kennedys of Camelot, the Pritchard native is campaigning on his own name. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and former naval officer, he served nine years in the military before going on to earn a MBA from Duke University and working in the casino and retail industries.

A self-described fiscally responsible Democrat, Kennedy is campaigning on improving the Affordable Care Act and public education, supporting gun ownership and women’s rights and combatting voter suppression.

Brian McGee

Withdrew from race.

Charles Nana

The firstborn of 14 children, Nana was the first person in his family to obtain a college degree. He went on to earn a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Howard University, a master’s degree in biomedical engineering from Catholic University of America International and a masters of business administration from the University of Chicago. Nana went on to build his brand in the business transformation and process improvement industry.

If elected, Nana will push for a living wage for Alabama workers, opportunities and care for the poor and military veterans, criminal justice reforms and free education to all from pre-K to college.