{"id":416573,"date":"2026-10-02T09:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416573\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:04:19","slug":"50-most-powerful-people-of-2026-in-orlando-hall-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416573\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Most Powerful People of 2026 In Orlando: Hall of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando magazine\u2019s Hall of Power is a legacy award that honors the recipient\u2019s lifetime of work, excellence, vision and service to Orlando\u2019s community and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Former President, Walt Disney World Resort<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Vahle retired in 2026 after a 36-year Disney career that began as an engineer at Magic Kingdom. As Walt Disney World president, he guided Central Florida\u2019s largest employer through the pandemic and into a historic period of expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Chair, Orange County School Board<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jacobs concludes a remarkable public-service career that included two terms as Orange County mayor and eight years leading the Orange County School Board. Her decades of influence helped shape the area\u2019s growth, schools and government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandomagazine.com\/2026-50-most-powerful-people-in-orlando\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Back to the 50 Most Powerful People List\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/svg\/21a9.svg\" alt=\"\u21a9\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando magazine\u2019s Hall of Power is a legacy award that honors the recipient\u2019s lifetime of work, excellence, vision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-416573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}