Bryan M. Desloge earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Real Estate from the Florida State University in 1983. He is President of Desloge Home Oxygen & Medical Equipment, a Tallahassee company that specializes in providing durable home medical equipment and respiratory services. Since 1992, Mr. Desloge has expanded the company and was included in the prestigious INC. 500 List, which recognizes the fastest growing privately held companies in the United States. Prior to starting his own company, he spent over 10 years with IBM in the Florida Panhandle working with public sector accounts in an administrative and marketing capacity.
He participates in many professional and charitable organizations. He is the President for the Florida Association of Counties Board; serves as a member of the National Association of Counties Board; serves on the NACo Financial Services Center Advisory Committee and is Vice Chair of the Behavioral Health Steering Committee. He is a member of the Florida State University, School of Business, Board of Governors; and was appointed by the Governor of Florida as the Director of the Early Learning Coalition of the Big Bend and the State of Florida Early Learning Advisory Committee. He serves as a member of the Leon County Schools Foundation Board; the Knight Creative Community Initiative; is a founding member of the Village Square Organization; and also serves as a member of the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Clinical Ethics Committee. He has served as board member and past chair of the Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce; the Leon County American Red Cross; the Senior Center Foundation; and many others. He is a graduate of Leadership Tallahassee and Leadership Florida.
He won a two-year term of office in 2006 as Leon County Commissioner for District IV, was elected again unopposed to a four-year term in the 2008 and 2012 elections. He currently serves as member of the Capital Region Transportation Planning Agency (CRTPA); as a member of the Community Redevelopment Council (CRA); the Downtown Improvement Authority and others.
Commissioner Desloge is a native of Tallahassee and a graduate of Leon High School. He and his wife, Beth, have four children: Elizabeth, Lina Marie, Marcella, and Patrick. He is especially proud that his wife’s family has lived in Tallahassee for nine generations, making the birth of his children the tenth generation in the family’s Tallahassee lineage. Outside of his professional and volunteer life, Commissioner Desloge stays active running, cycling, reading and traveling.