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The first woman to serve as mayor is believed to be Susanna Madora Salter of the United States who served as mayor of Argonia, Kansas in 1887. However, the first woman recorded winning a mayoral election was Nancy Smith in 1862, who declined to be sworn in as mayor of Oskaloosa, Iowa.

1860s

1862

Nancy Smith, first woman elected mayor in the United States in Oskaloosa, Iowa in 1862.^[1][2]

Smith declined to serve as mayor.^[3]

1880s

Susanna M. Salter was the first woman to serve as mayor in the United States.

1887

Susanna M. Salter, the first woman to serve a term as mayor in United States, and first female mayor of Argonia, Kansas, United States

1888

Mary D. Lowman, the first woman elected mayor of Oskaloosa, Kansas, United States

also the second woman mayor in Kansas. She served alongside the first all-woman city council in the United States.^[4] They were all re-elected in 1889.^[5]

1889

Lucy Sullivan, the first woman mayor of Baldwin, Kansas, United States ^[6]

1890s

Elizabeth Yates was the first woman elected mayor in the British Empire in 1893

1893

Elizabeth Yates, first woman mayor in the British Empire and first female mayor of Onehunga, New Zealand ^[7]

Barnes, elected the first woman mayor of Geuda Springs, Kansas in 1893.^[8]

1894

Anna Austin, the first woman mayor of Pleasanton, Kansas, United States ^[9] [population approx., 1,500]^[10]

1895

Alice E. Burns, first woman mayor of Florence, Oregon, United States

Burns was also the first woman elected in the state of Oregon. Women were elected to all other town offices as well.^[11][12]

1896

C. A. Curtis, the first woman mayor of Cimarron, Kansas, United States ^[13]

M. A. Wade, the first woman mayor of Ellis, Kansas, United States

Wade served with an all-woman municipal government.^[14]

1897

Juno Strain, the first woman mayor of Jamestown, Kansas, United States ^[15]

1898

Jesse Parker, first woman mayor of Kendrick, Idaho, United States

also the first woman mayor in the state of Idaho.^[16]

1900s

Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first woman elected mayor in England

1908

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, first woman mayor in England and first female mayor of Aldeburgh, United Kingdom ^[17]

1910s

Gwenllian Morgan was the first woman to serve as mayor in Wales.

Clara C. Munson was the first woman elected mayor in Oregon in the 19th century.

Imaginative drawing by reporter Marguerite Martyn of Mayor Ella Wilson of Hunnewell, Kansas, her supporters and opponents, with a photo. The all-male city council was attempting to remove her. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 3, 1911

1910

Gwenllian Morgan, first woman mayor of Brecon, Wales, United Kingdom

first woman mayor in Wales^[18]

1911

Kate F. O'Connor, first woman mayor of Arcadia, Illinois, United States ^[19]

Ella Wilson, first woman mayor of Hunnewell, Kansas,and said to be the first woman mayor in the United States ^[20]

1912

Clara C. Munson, first woman mayor of Warrenton, Oregon, United States

also the first woman elected mayor following the passage of the equal suffrage law in Oregon.^[21] Some sources, including The Daily Astorian, erroneously call Munson the first woman elected mayor in Oregon, however, that distinction belongs to Alice E. Burns who was elected mayor of Florence, Oregon in 1895.^[22]

Mary E. Woolley Chamberlain, first woman mayor of Kanab, Utah, United States

Susan Wissler, mayor of Dayton, Wyoming, United States

Wissler was the first woman mayor in Wyoming^[23]

1913

Defenbaugh, first woman elected mayor in Tyro, Kansas, United States ^[24]

1914

Clara Latorette Larson, first woman elected mayor of Troutdale, Oregon, United States ^[25]

1915

A. R. Canfield, first woman mayor of Warren, Illinois, United States ^[26]

Estelle Lawton Lindsey, first woman to execute the duties of Mayor of Los Angeles, California, United States

it occurred when Los Angeles Mayor Henry R. Rose was absent from his post in September 1915 and directed Lindsey, a member of the city council, to fill-in as acting mayor.^[27]

1916

Ellen French Aldrich, first woman elected mayor of Sawtelle, California, United States ^[28]

C. I. Driver, first woman to serve as mayor of Lone Rock, Colorado, United States

was appointed by the city council^[29]

1917

Avis Francis, first woman mayor of Valley Center, Kansas, United States ^[30]

Ophelia “Birdie” Crosby Harwood, mayor of Marble Falls, Texas, United States

also the first woman mayor in Texas, elected by an all-male vote three years before women were allowed to vote.^[31]

Marion Newhall Horwitz, first woman who served as mayor of Moore Haven, Florida, United States ^[32]

also first woman mayor in Florida

Laura Jane Starcher, first woman elected mayor of Umatilla, Oregon, United States ^[33]

1918

Blanch Shelley, first woman elected mayor of Sandy, Oregon, United States ^[34]

Maria Skobtsova, first woman mayor in the former Russian Empire and first female mayor of Anapa, Russia. ^[35]

1919

Helen B. Coe, first woman elected mayor of Langley, Washington, United States

was elected with an all-woman city council^[36]

1920s

The front page of the Flemish magazine Pallieter depicting Léonie Keingiaert de Gheluvelt, the first woman mayor in Belgium, as illustrated by Jos De Swerts.

Bertha Knight Landes was the first woman elected mayor in a major American city following her election as Mayor of Seattle in 1926.

Alzira Soriano (center) was the first woman to serve as mayor in Brazil. She held the position of Mayor of Lajes, Rio Grande do Norte from 1929 to 1930.

1920

Artkinson, first woman mayor of Jewett, Texas, United States, ^[37]

Lula V. Coleman first woman mayor of Jena, Louisiana, United States

Coleman, who was serving as deputy sheriff of LaSalle Parish, was appointed mayor by Governor John M. Parker, making her the first woman to serve as mayor in Louisiana^[38]

Unnamed woman mayor of Thebes, Illinois, United States ^[39]

Louise Fussman, mayor Humboldt, Kansas, United States ^[39]

Grace B. Lampshire, first woman elected mayor of Burns, Oregon, United States

also the first woman elected mayor in Oregon by write-in vote^[40]

Grace Miller, first woman elected mayor of Jackson, Wyoming, United States ^[41]

Bernice Pitts, first woman to execute the office of Mayor of Portland, Oregon, United States

Pitts, a student at Richmond School, served as mayor in place of George Luis Baker for five minutes^[42]

1921

Ellen M. Anderson, first woman mayor of Lantana, Florida, United States ^[43]

Léonie Keingiaert de Gheluvelt, first woman elected mayor of Gheluvelt, Belgium

also the first woman elected mayor in Belgium

Lillian Cox Gault, first woman elected mayor of St. Peter, Minnesota, United States

also the first woman to serve as mayor in Minnesota^[44][45]

Amy A. Kaukonen, first woman elected mayor in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, United States ^[46][47][48]

Mayme Ousley, first woman elected mayor of St. James, Missouri, United States

Ousley was also the first woman elected mayor in the state of Missouri

Mary Peterson, first woman elected mayor of Red Cloud, Nebraska, United States ^[49]

Florence J. Pierce, the first woman elected mayor of Goodhue, Minnesota, United States ^[50]

Dolly Spencer, first woman elected mayor of Milford, Ohio, United States ^[51]

1922

Beatrice Anna Cartwright, first woman elected mayor of Brackley, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom

Dr. Josie Rogers, first woman mayor of Daytona, Florida, United States ^[52]

Maude R. Satterthwaite, first woman mayor of Stonewall, North Carolina, United States ^[53]

1923

Emma J. Harvat, first woman elected mayor of Iowa City, Iowa, United States

first woman in the United States to be elected mayor of a city with more than 10,000 inhabitants^[54]

Mary McFadden, first woman mayor of Magnetic Springs, Ohio, United States

was appointed by the city council at the age of 80.^[55]

Janet Stancomb-Wills, first woman mayor of Ramsgate, Kent, England, United Kingdom ^[56]

Alice Harrell Strickland, first woman elected mayor in Duluth, Georgia, United States ^[57][58]

1924

Kathrine M. Cowan, first woman mayor of Wilmington, North Carolina, United States ^[59]

Lucy Dales, first woman elected mayor of Dunstable, England, United Kingdom ^[60]

Jesse Elwyn Nelson, first woman elected mayor of Signal Hill, California, United States

also Signal Hill's first mayor^[61]

Edwina Benner, first woman elected mayor of Sunnyvale, California, United States

Matilde Pérez Mollá, first woman elected mayor in Spain, (city of Gorga, Spain)

Mildred Putnam, first woman elected mayor of Stoutsville, Missouri, United States ^[62]

1925

Rebecca Estell Bourgeois Winston, first woman elected mayor in New Jersey, United States ,^[63]

first mayor and founder of Estell Manor

Maude Duncan, first woman elected mayor of Winslow, Arkansas, United States ^[64]

Maggie Skipwith Smith, first woman elected mayor in Louisiana, United States ^[65]

1926

Mattle Chandler, first woman mayor of Richmond, California, United States ^[66]

Bertha Knight Landes, first woman Mayor of Seattle, Washington, United States

first woman mayor of a major American city^[67]

Aasa Helgesen, first woman elected mayor of Utsira and first female mayor in Norway

1927

Alzira Soriano de Souza, first female appointed mayor in Brazil

also first female mayor of Lages

Fanne Gaar, first woman elected mayor in Arizona, mayor of Casa Grande, Arizona, United States ^[68]

Margaret Beavan, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

first woman lord mayor in the United Kingdom

1928

Lena Culver Hawkins, first woman mayor of Brooksville, Florida, United States

Ella L. Maddocks, first woman mayor of Owls Head, Maine, United States

"mayor" was an honorary title chosen by the Owls Head Select Committee^[69]

Alzira Soriano, first woman elected mayor in Latin America, mayor of Lajes, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

1929

Emily Jones, first woman elected mayor of Eureka, California, United States ^[70]

Bessie Moore, first woman elected mayor of Candor (village), New York, United States ^[71]

Moore won by write-in vote and refused to take the oath of office^[72]

1930s

Alicia Cañas Zañartu was the first woman popularly elected in Chile.

Australia's first woman mayor was Lilian Fowler who began her tenure as mayor of Newtown in 1938.

1930

A. F. Board, first woman elected Mayor of Watford, England, United Kingdom ^[73]

Sadiye Hanım, first woman elected elected mayor in Turkey when elected for Kılıçkaya in Artvin

Essie Ward, first woman elected mayor of King City, Missouri, United States ^[74]

Luiza Zavloschi, first woman elected mayor in Romania when elected for Buda (Bogdănești)

1932

Stella Alexander, first woman elected mayor of Issaquah, Washington, United States ^[75]

1933

Doris W. Bradway, first woman mayor of Wildwood, New Jersey, United States ^[76]

1935

Alicia Cañas, first female elected mayor in Chile, the first of Providencia

1936

Barbara Hanley, first women elected mayor in Canada when elected to office in Webbwood, Ontario ^[77]

Ann Eliza Longden, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

1937

Ines V. Serion, the first woman elected mayor in Philippines—elected in Vallehermoso, Negros Oriental

Kathrine Wykle, mayor of Clyde, New York, United States

also the first woman mayor in New York^[78]

1938

Lilian Fowler, first woman mayor in Australia, at Newtown ^[79]

Lady Gwladys Delamere, first woman mayor of Nairobi, Kenya ^[80]

1939

Kathleen Clarke, first woman Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland

Graciela Contreras, first woman elected mayor in Santiago, Chile

Alice Burke, first woman elected as mayor in New England—in Westfield, Massachusetts, United States ^[81]

1940s

1940

Mary Ellen Presnell Brendle, first woman mayor of Englewood, Tennessee, United States ^[82][83]

1941

Elsie Chamberlain, first woman mayor of Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom ^[84]

Marie Elizabeth May Bell, first woman mayor of Windhoek, Namibia

Edna Annie Crichton, first woman Lord Mayor of York, England, United Kingdom

1942

Gladys Maasdorp, first woman mayor of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (today's Harare, Zimbabwe)

Jessie Beatrice Kitson, first woman Lord Mayor of Leeds, England, United Kingdom

took office after the previous male holder, Arthur Clark, died in office

1944

Mary Carey Dondero, first woman mayor of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States ^[85][86]

1945

Odette Roux, first woman mayor of Les Sables-d'Olonne and the first woman mayor in France

Walker, first woman mayor of Lisle (village), New York, United States ^[87]

1946

Truus Beliën, first woman mayor of Oost-, West- en Middelbeers and the first woman mayor in Netherlands

Luise Albertz, first woman elected mayor in Oberhausen and the first elected female mayor (Oberbürgermeisterin) in Germany

Felisa Rincón de Gautier, first woman mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico

first woman mayor of a capital city in United States soil

Ninetta Bartoli, first woman mayor in Italy and first female mayor in Sardinia.^[88][89]

1947

Louise Schroeder, first female mayor of Berlin, Germany

Sarah G. Leffler, first female mayor of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States

also the first woman elected mayor in Pennsylvania^[90]

1948

Zenzi Hölzl, first female mayor of Gloggnitz and also the first female mayor in Austria

Belle Cooledge, first female mayor of Sacramento, California, United States

Mildred Stark, first female mayor of East Detroit (now Eastpointe), Michigan

also first female mayor in Michigan

1949

Beryl Archibald Crichlow, first female mayor of San Fernando, and the first woman elected mayor in Trinidad and Tobago

Dorothy McCullough Lee, first woman mayor of Portland, Oregon, United States

Edith P. Welty, first woman Mayor of Yonkers, New York, United States ^[91]

1950s

1950

Erika Keck, first woman elected mayor in Ahrensburg and the first elected female mayor (Bürgermeisterin) in Germany

Katharine Elkus White, first woman mayor of Red Bank, New Jersey, United States

Müfide İlhan, first woman elected mayor in Turkey and of Mersin

1951

Rebekah H. Hord, first woman mayer in Kentucky, Maysville Kentucky, United States

Charlotte Whitton, first woman elected mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Olga Maturana, first woman elected Mayor of Pichilemu, Chile

Vera Martucci, first woman appointed mayor of Teterboro, New Jersey, United States ^[92]

1952

Violet Hardisty Grantham, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Martha Priscilla Shaw, first woman elected mayor in South Carolina and first woman elected Mayor of Sumter, South Carolina, United States ^[93]

1953

Agnes Israelson, first woman elected mayor in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, United States

Dorothy Porter, first woman elected mayor in Nevada and first woman elected mayor of North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States ^[94]

1954

Dorothy N. Dolbey, first woman elected mayor in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States ^[95]

Emílie Knotková, first woman elected mayor in Liberec, Czechoslovakia

1955

Ragina Balas, first woman elected mayor of Ferry Village, New York, United States ^[96]

Jane Forrester, first woman elected mayor of Belleville, Ontario, Canada ^[97]

Alba Roballo, first woman elected to the (then collective) Municipal Council of Montevideo, Uruguay

Mary Van Stevens, first woman elected mayor of Heppner, Oregon, United States ^[98]

She resigned in 1956 after purchasing a business in The Dalles, Oregon, United States .^[99]

1956

Smt. Sulochana M. Modi, first woman elected mayor in Mumbai, India

Maria Desylla-Kapodistria, first woman elected mayor in Greece and of Corfu (city)

Dorothy Edwards, first woman elected mayor in Tasmania, Australia and of Launceston ^[100]

Mary Estus Jones Webb, first woman to serve as Mayor-President of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

1957

Hulda Dóra Jakobsdóttir, first woman elected mayor in Kópavogur and first female mayor in Iceland

Elizabeth Hall, first woman mayor of Sag Harbor, New York^[101]

Betty Potter, first woman mayor of Mount Kisco, New York, United States ^[102]

1958

Aruna Asaf Ali, first woman elected mayor in Delhi, India

Tara Cherian, first woman elected mayor in Chennai, India

Iris Winnifred King, first woman elected mayor in Kingston, Jamaica

Aldamira Guedes Fernandes, first woman elected mayor in Brazil and also first female mayor of Quixeramobim

Ester Roa, first woman elected mayor in Concepción, Chile

Mary Pearce, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Leeds, England, United Kingdom

1959

Helena Evans, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Jane Dowdall, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Cork, Ireland

Joyce Newton Thompson, first woman elected mayor of Cape Town, South Africa

1960s

The first woman mayor in Queensland, Australia was Nellie Robinson who was mayor of Toowoomba from 1967 to 1981.

A statue depicting Taiwan's first woman mayor, Hsu Shih-hsien, who was first elected in 1968. She was elected for a second term in 1982.

1960

Auður Auðuns, first woman mayor of Reykjavik, Iceland

Dame Jean Roberts, first woman Lord Provost of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

first woman lord provost. "Provost" is used instead of "mayor" in Scotland

Margot Brett, first woman mayor of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe)

1961

Barbara Saben, first woman mayor of Kampala, Uganda

May Ross McDowell, first woman elected mayor of Johnson City, Tennessee, United States ^[103]

Violet Kusbel Cimbora, first woman elected mayor in Florida. Mayor of Masaryktown, Florida, United States

Myrtle Reed, first woman mayor of Grand River, Ohio, United States

1962

Eleanor P. Sheppard, first woman elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia, United States ^[104]

Leonida Tămaș, first woman mayor of Timisoara, Romania

1963

Marian Erdmann, first woman elected mayor of Great Falls, Montana, United States ^[105]

Ann Hitch Kilgore, first woman mayor of Hampton, Virginia, United States

Anita Fernandini de Naranjo, first woman mayor of Lima, Peru

Florence Mills Brown, first woman elected lord mayor of Bristol, England, United Kingdom

1964

Lenore Bishop, first woman mayor of Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia

also first woman mayor in South Australia^[106]

Vera Kolarič, first woman mayor of Maribor (present Slovenia)

1965

Norma O. Walker, first woman mayor of Aurora, Colorado, United States

Grace Onyango, first woman elected mayor of Kisumu, Kenya

also the first African woman who was a mayor of an African city^[107]

1966

Constance Cummings-John, first appointed woman mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone

Nellie Beer, first elected female Lord mayor of Manchester, England, United Kingdom

1967

Norma Villareal de Zambrano, first woman mayor in Mexico

Ann Uccello, first woman mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, United States

also first woman mayor of a U.S. state capital

Grace Hartman, first woman mayor of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Janet Wesonga, first woman mayor of Mbale, Uganda

Mary "Peggy" Kerr, first woman mayor of Sayreville, New Jersey, United States

was elected with three female councilwomen, creating the first female-majority municipal government in New Jersey

Nellie Robinson, first woman mayor of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

also the first woman mayor in Queensland^[108]

1968

Lise Girardin, first woman Mayor of Geneva, Switzerland

Rena Parker, first woman mayor of Corona, California, United States ^[109]

Silvia Boza, first woman mayor of Las Condes, Chile

Hsu Shih-Hsien, first woman elected mayor of Chiayi City and the first woman elected mayor in Taiwan ^[110]

1969

Pilar Careaga Basabe, first woman mayor of Bilbao, Spain

Eve Homeyer, first woman elected mayor of Aspen, Colorado, United States ^[111]

Viola Phillips, first woman mayor elected in Loveland, Ohio, United States

also first woman mayor in Hamilton County^[112]

1970s

Colette Flesch was the first woman elected mayor of Luxembourg City

In 1975, Ella Stack became the first woman elected Lord Mayor of Darwin, Australia

Unita Blackwell was the first African American woman elected mayor in Mississippi. She served as mayor of Mayersville, Mississippi from 1976 to 2001.

On December 4, 1978, Dianne Feinstein was named acting mayor of San Francisco, making her the city's first woman mayor. In 1979, she ran and won as mayor making her the first elected woman to serve as mayor in San Francisco.

1970

Margaret Kenyatta, first black female mayor of Nairobi, Kenya

Dabir Azam Hosna, first woman elected mayor of Ahvaz, Iran

Colette Flesch, first woman elected mayor of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

1971

Linda A. Blogoslawski, first woman elected mayor of New Britain, Connecticut, United States ^[113]

Patience Latting, first woman elected mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States ^[114]

Latting was also the first female mayor of any major U.S. city with more than 350,000 residents.^[114]

Lorette Wood, first woman mayor of Santa Cruz, California, United States ^[115]

Dorothy F. Innes, first woman elected Lord mayor of Plymouth, England, United Kingdom

Norene Mosley, first woman elected mayor of Polson, Montana, United States ^[116]

1972

Ellen Walker Craig-Jones, first woman elected mayor of Urbancrest, Ohio, United States

also the first African-American woman to be elected mayor by popular vote of a United States municipality.

Phyllis Loe, first woman elected Lord mayor of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Jane Bigelow, first woman mayor of London, Ontario, Canada

1973

Jemima Cook, first woman elected mayor of Twin Bridges, Montana, United States ^[117]

Eileen Lloyd, first woman elected mayor of Keansburg, New Jersey, United States

Marjorie Alice Brown, first woman elected Lord mayor of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Julianne M. Jensen was elected the first woman mayor of Knoxville, Iowa, United States

Barbara Impellittiere, first woman elected mayor of Cold Spring, New York, United States ^[118]

Jane McCormick Tolmach first woman elected Mayor of Oxnard, California, United States

1974

Janet Gray Hayes, first woman elected Mayor of San Jose, California, United States ^[119]

Hayes was also the first female mayor of a major U.S. city with more than 500,000 residents.^[119]

Eleanor Kieliszek, first woman elected Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey, United States ^[120]

Carrie Kent, first African-American woman mayor of Walthourville, Georgia, United States

Anne Kaplan, first woman mayor of Monticello, New York, United States ^[121]

1975

Ruth Blankman, first woman elected mayor of Canton, New York, United States ^[122]

Helen Boosalis, first woman elected mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Mary Byrne, first woman elected mayor of Galway, Ireland

Ione Christensen, first woman elected mayor of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada ^[123]

Lila Cockrell, first woman elected mayor of San Antonio, Texas, United States

Joy Cummings, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Newcastle (New South Wales), Australia

Beth Finch, first woman elected mayor of Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States ^[124]

Betty Edmondson, first woman mayor of Yakima, Washington, United States ^[125]

Evelyn Helena Parker, first woman mayor of Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia

also the first woman mayor in Western Australia^[126]

Connie Ames Peters, first woman elected mayor of Wichita, Kansas, United States ^[127]

Eleanor A. Simpson, first woman elected mayor in Old Westbury, New York, United States

also first woman elected mayor in Nassau County, New York^[128]

Ella Stack, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Darwin, Australia

1976

Unita Blackwell, first African American woman elected mayor in Mississippi, United States

served as Mayor of Mayersville, Mississippi from 1976 to 2001

Sofía Medina de López, first woman elected mayor of Medellín, Colombia

Margaret Hance, first woman elected Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, United States ^[129]

Adlene Harrison, first woman mayor of Dallas, Texas, United States

Dorothy Wilken, first woman elected mayor of Boca Raton, Florida, United States ^[130]

Phyllis Sweeney, first woman elected mayor of Laguna Beach, California, United States ^[131]

1977

Maria Barnaby Greenwald, first woman elected mayor of Cherry Hill, New Jersey^[132]

Isabella Cannon, first woman elected mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina, United States ^[133]

Eleanor Crouch, first woman elected mayor of Santa Paula, California, United States ^[134]

Joyce Ebert, first woman to serve as mayor of Everett Washington, United States ^[135]

Carole Keeton Strayhorn, first woman elected mayor of Austin, Texas, United States

Betty Marshall, first woman elected Mayor of York, Pennsylvania, United States ^[136]

Suzi Oppenheimer, first woman elected mayor of Mamaroneck (village), New York, United States ^[137]

Mathilde Schroyens, first woman elected mayor of Antwerp, Belgium

1978

Dianne Feinstein, first woman and first person of Jewish faith to serve as Mayor of San Francisco, United States

Feinstein was appointed mayor on December 4, 1978 following the shooting death of her predecessor, George Moscone. In 1979, she became the first woman elected Mayor of San Francisco.

Enma González, first elected female Mayor of Vigo, Spain

Dusty Miller, first woman elected Mayor of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Marjorie Carroll, first woman elected Mayor of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Helen Wilkes, first woman to become Mayor of West Palm Beach, Florida, United States ^[138]

Frances Prince, first woman to become mayor of Thousand Oaks, California, United States

also served 1983 to 1984^[139]

1979

Núria Albó, first woman elected mayor of La Garriga, Spain

Jane M. Byrne, first woman elected Mayor of Chicago, Illinois, United States, United States

Byrne was also the first female mayor of any United States city with more than 3 million residents.

Clo Hoover, first woman elected mayor of Santa Monica, California, United States ^[140]

Virginia Smith, first woman mayor of Ticonderoga, New York, United States ^[141]

1980s

Kathryn J. Whitmire was the first woman elected Mayor of Houston, Texas in 1982.

The first woman mayor of Mayor of Auckland City, Catherine Tizard, was elected in 1983.

Sallyanne Atkinson was the first woman elected Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Australia in 1985.

Virginia Beach first elected Meyera Oberndorf mayor in 1988, making her the city's first woman mayor. She served in that capacity until 2009.

In 1989, Luiza Erundina became the first woman Mayor of São Paulo, Brazil.

In 1989, Strasbourg, France elected its first woman mayor, Catherine Trautmann.

1980

Janice Bateman, first woman mayor of Berwick, Victoria, Australia ^[142]

Patricia Logan, first woman elected mayor of Noblesville, Indiana, United States

Janet Smith, first woman elected mayor of St. Albans (city), Vermont, United States

less than a week after she was sworn-in Smith was shot an killed at her home.^[143]

1981

Joy Burgess, first woman elected mayor of Milwaukie, Oregon, United States ^[144]

Ruth Burleigh, first woman elected mayor of Bend, Oregon, United States^[145]

Juanita Crabb, first woman elected Mayor of Binghamton, New York, United States ^[146]

Eileen Anderson, first woman elected Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Violet Khouri, first woman elected mayor of Kafr Yasif and the first female mayor in Israel

Mary K. Shell, first woman elected mayor of Bakersfield, California, United States ^[147]

Deborah Ponder Baker, first woman mayor of Hot Springs, North Carolina, United States ^[148]

1982

Kathryn J. Whitmire, first woman elected mayor of Houston, Texas, United States

Tina Tomlje, first woman mayor of Ljubljana, present Slovenia

Juanita Crabb, first woman elected mayor of Binghamton, New York, United States

Grace Bannister, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Belfast, United Kingdom

Kit Ward, first woman mayor of Nuneaton and Bedworth, England, United Kingdom ^[149]

Sue Marie Young, first woman elected mayor of Richfield, Utah, United States ^[150]

1983

Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington, first woman elected Lord Mayor of London, England, United Kingdom

Luiza Erundina, first woman elected mayor of São Paulo, Brasil

Wendy Chapman, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Adelaide, Australia

Elizabeth Kishkon, first woman elected mayor of Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Sue Miller, first woman elected mayor of Salem, Oregon, United States ^[151]

Elda Pucci, first woman elected mayor of Palermo, Italy

also the first female mayor of an Italian city

Catherine Tizard, first woman elected mayor of Auckland, New Zealand ^[152]

Helen Westberg, first woman mayor of Carbondale, Illinois, United States ^[153]

1984

Daurene Lewis, first black female mayor in Nova Scotia, Canada (Annapolis Royal) ^[154]

Mary Kate Stovall, first female, first African American mayor of Hurtsboro, Alabama, United States

Donna Owens, first woman elected Mayor of Toledo, Ohio, United States ^[155]

Karen Johnson, first woman elected mayor of Schenectady, New York, United States ^[156]

Elsie Wayne, first woman elected mayor of Saint John, New Brunswick Canada ^[157]

1985

Sallyanne Atkinson, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Australia

first woman member of the Liberal Party of Australia to serve as Lord Mayor^[158]

Ella Bengel, first woman elected mayor of New Bern, North Carolina, United States ^[159]

Dee Donne, the first woman elected mayor of Torrington, Connecticut, United States ^[160]

Shirley Huffman, first woman elected mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon, United States ^[161]

Lorna Kesterson, first woman elected mayor of Henderson, Nevada, United States ^[162]

Gerri Lynn O'Connor, first woman elected mayor of Durham Region, Ontario, Canada ^[163]

Ann Pomykal, first woman elected mayor of Lewisville, Texas, United States ^[164]

1986

Alexis Ord, first woman elected mayor of Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Australia

Gretchen Brewin, first woman elected mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Doone Kennedy, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ^[165]

Maria Luíza Fontenele, first woman elected mayor of Fortaleza, Brasil

Maureen O'Connor, first woman elected mayor of San Diego, California, United States

Jessie M. Rattley, first woman and African American elected by fellow Council members as mayor of the City of Newport, Rhode Island, United States ^[166]

Lois Reed, first woman elected mayor of Malinta, Ohio, United States

Reed served for ten minutes before tendering her resignation^[167]

1987

Maria Magnani Noya, first woman elected mayor of Turin, Italy

Carrie Saxon Perry, first woman elected mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Sandra Warshaw Freedman, first woman elected mayor of Tampa, Florida, United States ^[168]

May Cutler, first woman elected mayor of Westmount, Quebec, Canada

Sue Myack, first woman elected Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Lottie Shackelford, first woman to serve as mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas, United States ^[169]

Laura Slate, first woman elected mayor of Gouverneur, New York, United States ^[170]

Annette Strauss, first woman elected mayor of Dallas, Texas, United States ^[171]

Betty Turner, first woman elected mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas, United States ^[172]

Helen Perkins, first woman elected mayor of Hollandale, Mississippi, United States

also the city's first African American mayor^[173]

1988

Agnes Devanadera, first woman elected mayor of Sampaloc, Quezon, Philippines

Elizabeth H. Dwarica, first woman elected mayor of Leonia, New Jersey, United States ^[174][175]

Luiza Erundina, first woman elected mayor of São Paulo, Brazil

Eleanor McLaughlin, first woman Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Sophie Masloff, first woman elected Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Meyera E. Oberndorf, first woman elected mayor of Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States

Joyce Trimmer, first woman elected mayor of Scarborough, Ontario, Canada ^[176]

Rosalia I. Umali, first woman elected Mayor of Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines

1989

Annette Jäger, first female mayor of Essen, Germany ^[177]

Catherine Trautmann, first woman elected mayor of Strasbourg, France

Jan Reimer, first woman elected mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Vicki Buck, first woman elected Mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand ^[178]

Krystyna Nesteruk, first woman elected mayor of Katowice, Poland

Janice Stork, first woman elected Mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States ^[179]

Suzie Azar, first woman elected mayor of El Paso, Texas, United States

Martha S. Wood, first woman elected mayor of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States ^[180]

1990s

Sharon Pratt Kelly was the first woman mayor of Washington, D.C. (elected in 1990, took office in 1991).

In 1991, Rita Barberá was the first woman elected mayor of Valencia, Spain.

Linda Lingle, who later became the first woman Governor of Hawaii, was the first woman elected Mayor of Maui in 1991.

Frankfurt, Germany elected Petra Roth mayor in 1995, making her the first woman to serve the city in that capacity.

Ivi Eenmaa was the first woman mayor of Tallinn, Estonia, serving from 1997 to 1999.

From 1999 to 2009, Rosa Aguilar was the Mayor of Córdoba, the first woman in the city's history to serve in that capacity.

1990

Hazel Beard, first woman elected mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, United States

Franciszka Cegielska first woman elected mayor of Gdynia, Poland

Alice Jempsa, Los Alamitos, California, United States ^[181]

1991

Rita Barberá, first woman elected mayor of Valencia, Spain

Cosetta Castagno, first woman elected mayor of Vernon, Utah, United States ^[182]

Ruth Devenney, first woman mayor of Kiama, New South Wales, Australia ^[183]

Harue Kitamura, first woman elected mayor of Ashiya, Japan

Moira Leiper Ducharme, first woman elected mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada ^[184]

Linda Lingle, first woman elected Mayor of Maui, Hawaii, United States

Sharon Pratt Kelly, first woman elected Mayor of the District of Columbia, United States ^[185]

Ana Rosa Payán, first woman elected mayor of Mérida, Mexico

June Rowlands, first woman elected mayor of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kaba Rougui Barry, first woman elected mayor of Matam, Guinea ^[186]

Susan Weiner, first woman elected Mayor of Savannah, Georgia, United States ^[187]

Elizabeth Brater, first woman elected Mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Joyce Johnson, first woman mayor of Orem, Utah, United States ^[188]

Mary Kanyha, first woman mayor of Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina, United States ^[189]

1992

Deedee Corradini, first woman elected mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Sonia Durán de Infante, first woman in function of mayor of Bogotá, Colombia

Jane Robbins, first woman elected mayor of Pine City, Minnesota, United States

Marilyn Roman, first woman to serve as Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

served as acting mayor for over four months following the removal of her predecessor, Gerald McCann, who was convicted of fraud^[190]

Ann-Marit Sæbønes, first woman elected mayor of Oslo, Norway

M. Susan Savage, first woman elected mayor Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Susan Thompson, first woman elected mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Fran Wilde, first woman elected mayor of Wellington, New Zealand ^[191]

Cheryll Woods-Flowers, first woman elected mayor of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States

Stella Welsh, first woman elected mayor of Orem, Utah, United States ^[192]

Welsh defeated Joyce Johnson, the first woman mayor of Orem who was appointed by the city council, in the 1991 general election

1993

Eunice Britto, first woman elected mayor Mangalore (Mangaluru), India ^[193]

Rita Cutajar, first woman mayor of Għasri (Gozo), and also first female mayor in Malta

Slobodanka Gruden, first woman elected mayor of Belgrade, Serbia

Ildikó Asztalos, first woman elected mayor of Miskolc, Hungary

Agnethe Davidsen, first woman elected mayor of Nuuk, Greenland

Ruth Bascom, first woman mayor of Eugene, Oregon, United States ^[194]

Anne Jones, first woman elected mayor of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States ^[195]

Shirley Seney, first woman mayor of Lake Placid, New York, United States ^[196]

1994

Sharon Sayles Belton, first woman and first African-American elected mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Patricia Candiano, first woman mayor of Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States ^[197]

Dagmar Lastovecká, first woman elected mayor of Brno, Czech Republic

Marie-Luise Smeets, first woman elected mayor of Düsseldorf, Germany

1995

Soledad Becerril, first elected female mayor of Seville, Spain

Ivi Eenmaa, first woman mayor of Tallinn, Estonia ^[198]

Christine Korff, first woman elected mayor of Port Chester, New York, United States ^[199]

Mary Lou Makepeace, first woman mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States ^[200]

Petra Roth first woman elected mayor of Frankfurt, Germany

Luisa Fernanda Rudi, first elected female mayor of Saragossa, Spain

Joan Shafer, first woman elected mayor of Surprise, Arizona, United States ^[201]

Saroj Singh, first woman elected mayor of Varanasi, India ^[202]

Celia Villalobos, first elected female mayor of Málaga, Spain

Rosemary Waldorf, first woman elected Mayor of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States ^[203]

1996

Margaret Farquhar, first woman elected Lord Provost of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

Marina Matulović-Dropulić, first woman in function of mayor of Zagreb, Croatia

(appointed 1996, elected 1997)

Eva-Riitta Siitonen, first woman elected mayor of Helsinki, Finland

1997

Fay Brennan, first woman elected mayor of Wyong, New South Wales, Australia ^[204]

Jessica Maes, first woman elected mayor of Huntington Park, California, United States ^[205]

Joan Wagnon, first woman elected of mayor of Topeka, Kansas, United States ^[206]

Tokozile Xasa, first woman elected mayor of Amathole District, Eastern Cape, South Africa

also first woman mayor in Eastern Cape^[207]

1998

Miriam Feirberg, first woman elected mayor of Netanya, Israel

Yael German, first woman elected mayor of Herzliya, Israel

Elżbieta Grabarek-Bartoszewicz, first woman elected mayor of Gdańsk, Poland

Fikile Mtembu, first woman elected mayor of Manzini, Swaziland ^[208]

also first woman mayor in Swaziland^[209]

Vilma Santos, first woman elected mayor of Lipa City, Philippines

Sarojini Yogeswaran, first woman elected mayor of Jaffna, Sri Lanka

she was assassinated three months into her term^[210]

1999

Rosa Aguilar, first woman elected mayor of Córdoba, Spain

Yolanda Barcina, first woman elected mayor of Pamplona, Spain

Kay Barnes, first woman elected Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Paz Fernández, first woman elected mayor of Gijón, Spain

Jan Laverty Jones, first woman elected Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Maria Clara Lobregat, first woman elected Mayor of Zamboanga City, Philippines

Patricia Nawa, first woman elected mayor of Lusaka, Zambia ^[211]

Shirley Robb, first woman elected mayor of Princeton, Indiana, United States ^[212]

Rosario Robles, first woman appointed Head of Government of the Federal District in Mexico City, Mexico ^[213]

in Mexico City, "Head of Government of the Federal District" is the equivalent of a mayor.

Theresia Samaria, first woman elected mayor of Walvis Bay, Namibia

Frankie Seaberry, first woman elected mayor of Centerville, Missouri, United States ^[214]

Jennifer Stultz, first woman elected mayor of Gastonia, North Carolina, United States

Helen Wright, first woman elected Lord Provost of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Yvonne Thorne, first woman elected mayor of Dorset Council in Tasmania, Australia ^[215]

Blanca Vela, first woman elected mayor of Brownsville, Texas, United States ^[216]

Deborah C. Whitcraft, the first woman elected mayor of Beach Haven, New Jersey, United States ^[217]

Sharon J. Bilinski, the first woman elected Mayor of Pana, Illinois, United States, May 1, 1999. Pana News Palladium

2000s

Martine Aubry is the current Mayor of Lille, France having assumed office in 2001 as the city's first woman mayor.

In 2002, Rhine McLin became the first woman elected mayor of Dayton, Ohio.

Atlanta, Georgia elected its first woman mayor, Shirley Franklin, in 2002.

Baltimore, Maryland elected Sheila Dixon mayor in 2007, making her the first woman to serve as mayor. In 2010, she resigned following a fraud indictment that she pled guilty to.

Matti Herrera Bower is the first woman to serve as Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida.

Azra Jafari was appointed to serve as mayor of Nili, Afghanistan, making her the county's first woman mayor.

In 2009, Zurich, Switzerland elected Corine Mauch as their mayor, making her the first woman to serve the city in that capacity.

Mia Love was the first woman elected mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah and the first African American woman elected mayor in the state of Utah.

2000

Lore Christopher, first woman elected mayor of Keizer, Oregon, United States ^[218]

Alison Grosse, previously known as Allison Kerr-Jones, first woman elected mayor of the Shire of Maroochy, Queensland, Australia ^[219][220]

Izalene Tiene, first woman elected mayor of Campinas, Brazil

2001

Yvonne Brown, first black woman elected mayor of Tchula, Mississippi, United States

first black Republican woman elected mayor in the state of Mississippi

Martine Aubry, first woman elected mayor of Lille, France

Berta Cabral, first woman elected mayor of Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal^[221]

Lauren Fortmiller, first woman elected mayor of Sag Harbor, New York, United States

also the first lesbian mayor of Sag Harbor

Rhine McLin, first woman elected mayor of Dayton, Ohio, United States

Shirley Franklin, first woman and black woman elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Jane Leaver, first woman elected mayor of Medina, Ohio, United States ^[222]

Ellen O. Moyer, first woman elected mayor of Annapolis, Maryland, United States

Dubravka Šuica, first woman elected mayor of Dubrovnik, Croatia

Rosa Russo Iervolino, first woman elected mayor of Naples, Italy

Ophelia Hoff Saytumah, first woman elected mayor of Monrovia, Liberia

Sandra Strader, first woman elected mayor of Tupper Lake, New York, United States ^[223]

2002

Dora Bakoyannis, first woman elected mayor of Athens, Greece

Annika Billström, first woman elected mayor of Stockholm, Sweden

Jane L. Campbell, first woman elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Brigitte Fouré, first woman elected mayor of Amiens, France

Sekesai Makwavarara, first woman deputy mayor of Harare, Zimbabwe ^[224]

Nancy Merse, first woman mayor of Edgewater, New Jersey, United States ^[225]

Danica Simšič, first woman elected mayor of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Hilde Zach, first woman elected mayor of Innsbruck, Austria ^[226]

2003

Catalina Cirer, first woman mayor of Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Asma Chaabi, first female mayor of Essaouira, and the first woman elected mayor in Morocco

Rosina Hoebes, first woman elected mayor of Swakopmund, Namibia Template:Country data Nambia^[227]

Laine Jänes, first woman mayor of Tartu, Estonia ^[228]

Josefa Luzardo, first woman mayor of Las Palmas, Spain

Valentina Matviyenko, first woman mayor of Saint Petersburg, Russia

Aneesa Mirza, the first woman elected mayor of Ahmedabad, India

also the first woman of Muslim faith elected mayor in India^[229]

Rajya Sabha, first woman mayor of Dehradun, India ^[230]

Carolyn Terteling-Payne, first woman Mayor of Boise, Idaho, United States ^[231]

Rose Garland Thornton, first woman mayor pro tem of Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan ^[232]

Lucy Turnbull, first woman Lord Mayor of Sydney, Australia

Joan Vinton, first woman mayor of Shellharbour, New South Wales, Australia

Vinton served as interim mayor and was defeated in an election in December 2003 by deputy mayor David Hamilton.^[233]

Angelika Volquartz, first woman mayor of Kiel, Germany

2004

Deborah Cantwell, first woman elected mayor of Lawrence, Indiana, United States

also the first Democrat to be elected mayor in Lawrence^[234]

Maja Gojković, first woman mayor of Novi Sad, Serbia

Aminata Thiam, probably the first woman mayor of Dakkar, Senegal ^[235]

Oumou Sall Seck, first woman mayor of Goundam, Mali ^[236]

2005

Kim Driscoll, first woman elected mayor of Salem, Massachusetts, United States ^[237]

Semiha Borovac, first woman mayor of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Marija-Maja Ćatović, first woman mayor of Kotor and first female mayor in Montenegro

Andrée Boucher, first woman elected mayor of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada ^[238]

Dianne Watts, first woman elected mayor of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada ^[239]

Janet Mikhail, first woman mayor of Ramallah, Palestine

also the first woman mayor of a West Bank town^[240]

Violeta Menjívar, first woman mayor of San Salvador, El Salvador

Mercy Williams, first woman mayor of Kochi, India ^[241]

Prof. R Bindhu, first woman mayor of Thrissur, India ^[241]

Sheriel F. Perkins, first woman and African American elected mayor of Greenwood, Mississippi, United States

Theresa Murray, first woman mayor of Poplar, Montana, United States ^[242]

2006

Patricia Christensen, first woman elected mayor of Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States ^[243]

Eleni Mavrou, first woman elected mayor of Nicosia, Cyprus ^[244]

Ritt Bjerregaard, first woman mayor of Copenhagen, Denmark

Letizia Moratti, first woman elected mayor of Milan, Italy

Zenaida Moya, first woman elected mayor of Belize City, Belize

Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, first woman elected mayor of Warsaw, Poland

Olga Velazquez, first woman elected mayor of Portage, Indiana, United States

Margaret Hornady, first woman elected mayor of Grand Island, Nebraska, United States

Aissa Kirabo Kakira, first woman elected mayor of Kigali, Rwanda ^[245]

2007

Rita Ellis, first woman elected mayor of Delray Beach, Florida, United States ^[246]

Chen Wei, first woman elected mayor of Pingliang, China

Donnalee Lozeau, first woman elected mayor of Nashua, New Hampshire, United States ^[247]

April Capone Almon, first woman elected mayor of East Haven, Connecticut, United States

Matti Herrera Bower, first woman elected mayor of Miami Beach, Florida, United States ^[248]

Sheila Dixon, first black woman elected mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Barbara Ewing, first female Democrat elected mayor of Tell City, Indiana, United States ^[249]

Susan M. Kay, first woman elected mayor of Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States ^[250]

Shawna M. Gurgis, first woman elected mayor of Bedford, Indiana^[251]

Lisa Scaffidi, first woman elected mayor of Perth, Australia

Katrina Shimbulu, first woman mayor of Oshakati, Namibia ^[252]

Marta Vincenzi, first woman elected mayor of Genoa, Italy

Mónica Fein, first woman elected mayor of Rosario, Argentina

Aurora Villamayor, first woman elected mayor of Angono, Rizal, Philippines

2008

Sylviana Murni, first woman elected mayor of Central Jakarta and first female mayor in Indonesia

Elise Partin, first woman elected mayor of Cayce, South Carolina, United States

Alys Lawson, first woman elected mayor of Conway, South Carolina, United States ^[253]

Pam Lee, first woman elected mayor of Mullins, South Carolina, United States ^[254]

Mimi Elrod, first woman elected mayor of Lexington, Virginia, United States ^[255]

Patricia Sweetland, first woman mayor of Adams, New York, United States

Jeanne-Marie Napolitano, first woman mayor of Newport, Rhode Island, United States ^[256]

Mary Rossing, first woman elected mayor of Northfield, Minnesota, United States ^[257]

Nancy Tia Brown, first woman elected mayor of Cody, Wyoming, United States ^[258]

Wilda Diaz, first woman elected mayor of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, United States ^[259]

Linda Johnson, first woman elected mayor of Suffolk, Virginia, United States

Jetta Klijnsma, first woman mayor of The Hague, Netherlands

Helma Orosz, first woman elected mayor of Dresden, Germany

Blanca Alcalá, first woman elected mayor of Pueblo, Mexico

Sonia Castedo, first woman mayor of Alicante, Spain

Azra Jafari, first woman mayor of Nili and first woman mayor in Afghanistan

appointed^[260]

Eva Habil, first woman elected mayor of Komboha and first woman mayor in Egypt ^[261]

2009

Cheri Barry, first woman elected mayor of Meridian, Mississippi, United States ^[262]

Donna McFadden-Connors, first woman appointed mayor of Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States ^[263]

Yordanka Fandakova, first woman elected mayor of Sofia, Bulgaria

Fumiko Hayashi, first woman elected mayor of Yokohama, Japan

Melissa Johnson, first women elected mayor of West Jordan, Utah, United States

Jyoti Khandelwal, first woman mayor of Jaipur, India ^[264]

Mia Love, first women elected mayor Saratoga Springs, Utah and first black women mayor in Utah

Corine Mauch, first woman elected mayor of Zurich, Switzerland ^[265]

Stephanie Miner, first women elected mayor of Syracuse, New York, United States

Natasha Navas, first woman elected mayor of Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago

Banda Karthika Reddy, first woman elected mayor of Hyderabad, India

Linda Thompson, first women elected mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States

also the first African American mayor of Harrisburg

Kimiko Kubota, first woman mayor of Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan ^[266]

2010s

Ana Botella was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Madrid, Spain, serving from 2011 to 2015.

Since 2014, Anne Hidalgo has been serving as the Mayor of Paris, France—the first woman to do so.

In 2015, Ada Colau became the first woman to assume the office of Mayor of Barcelona, Spain.

Valérie Plante assumed office as Mayor of Montreal in 2017, making her the first woman to serve as the city's mayor.

2010

Debbie Amaroso, first woman elected mayor of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada

Patricia Ayala, first woman elected mayor of Artigas, Uruguay

Sara Duterte, first woman elected Mayor of Davao City, Philippines ^[267]

Shari Decter Hirst, first woman elected mayor of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

Kazumi Inamura, first woman mayor of Amagasaki, Japan

Patahiyah Ismail, first woman municipal council president of Penang Island, Malaysia^[268]

Katarína Macháčková, first woman mayor of Prievidza, Slovakia

Selma Nelumbu, first woman mayor of Omaruru, Namibia^[269]

Ana Olivera, first woman elected mayor of Montevideo, Uruguay

Adriana Peña, first woman elected mayor of Lavalleja, Uruguay

Elaine Trepper, first black woman mayor of Windhoek, Namibia

Hanna Zdanowska, first woman elected mayor of Łódź, Poland

2011

Ana Botella, first woman elected mayor of Madrid, Spain^[270]

Charlotte Brower, first woman elected mayor of North Slope Borough, Alaska^[271]

Joyce Chepkoech Korir, first woman elected mayor of Bomet, Kenya^[272]

Adelina Farici, first woman elected mayor of Burrel, Albania

Karen Freeman-Wilson, first woman elected mayor of Gary, Indiana, United States

also first African-American woman elected mayor in the State of Indiana

Salina Hayat Ivy, first woman elected mayor of Narayanganj, Bangladesh^[273]

Grace Mahosi, first woman elected mayor of Thulamela, Limpopo, South Africa^[274]

Lilian Osundwa, first woman elected mayor of Mumias, Kenya^[275]

Madeline Rogero, first woman elected mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Laura Roughton, first woman elected mayor of Jurupa Valley, California, United States

also first mayor of Jurupa Valley, California^[276]

Teresa Tomlinson, first woman elected mayor of Columbus, Georgia, United States ^[277]

Jean Quan, first woman elected mayor of Oakland, California, United States

also the first Asian American mayor of Oakland^[278]

Mercy Wanjiku Kimwe, first woman elected mayor of Muranga, Kenya^[279]

2012

Joanna Gash, first woman elected mayor of Shoalhaven, Australia^[280]

Jodie Harrison, first woman elected mayor of Lake Macquarie, Australia^[281]

Halyna Hereha, first woman appointed mayor of Kiev, Ukraine

Naomi Koshi, first woman elected mayor of Ōtsu, Japan

Frances Ann Romero, first woman elected mayor of Guadalupe, California, United States

Kelli Linville, first woman elected mayor of Bellingham, Washington

Margarita Arellanes Cervantes, first woman elected mayor of Monterrey, Mexico

Vera Baboun, first woman elected mayor of Bethlehem, Palestine

Dorothy Hubbard, first woman elected mayor of Albany, Georgia, United States ^[282]

2013

Trish Abato, first woman elected mayor of Suffern, New York, United States^[283]

Alinah Ahmad, first woman mayor of Petaling Jaya, Malaysia^[284]

Priscilla Arhin, probably the first woman elected mayor of Cape Coast, Ghana

Teuta Arifi, first woman elected mayor of Tetovo, Macedonia

Mary Ann Arnold, first woman elected mayor of Marked Tree, Arkansas, United States^[285]

Dorine Chukowry, first woman elected mayor of Port Louis, Mauritius^[286]

Renu Dabla, first woman elected mayor of Rohtak, India^[287]

Agnes Delgado-Tolentino, first woman elected mayor of Tagaytay, Philippines ^[288]

Anita Dugatto, first woman elected mayor of Derby, Connecticut, United States^[289]

Belen Fernandez, first woman elected mayor of Dagupan, Philippines ^[290]

Toni Harp, first woman elected mayor, and first female African-American mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, United States^[291]

Ashley Hennings, first woman elected mayor of Newport, New York, United States^[292]

Deb Hinchey, first woman elected mayor of Norwich, Connecticut, United States^[293]

Stacey Jordan, first woman elected mayor of Moorestown, New Jersey, United States^[294]

Cecelia Oba Tito, first woman elected mayor of Yei, South Sudan and also the first female mayor in South Sudan^[295]

Catherine Samba-Panza, probably the first woman elected mayor of Bangui, Central African Republic

Kathy Sheehan, first woman elected mayor of Albany, New York, United States^[296]

Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, first woman elected mayor of Malmö, Sweden

Jean Stothert, first woman elected mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Olga Rasamimanana, first woman elected mayor of Antananarivo, Madagascar

Stephanie Uy-Tan, first woman elected mayor of Catbalogan, Philippines ^[297]

Lovely Warren, first woman elected mayor, and first African-American woman mayor of Rochester, New York, United States^[298]

Del Rae Williams, first woman elected mayor of Moorhead, Minnesota, United States^[299]

Diana Willits, first woman elected mayor of Windsor Heights, Iowa

Maile Wilson, first woman elected mayor of Cedar City, Utah, United States^[300]

2014

Mayor of Gillette, Wyoming Louise Carter-King honoring a veteran Gillette Police Department officer at a City Council meeting in Gillette, Wyoming

Katari Anuradha, first woman mayor of Chittoor, India^[301]

Lourdes "Baby" S. Cataquiz, first woman elected mayor of San Pedro, Laguna, Philippines ^[302]

Maty Mint Hamady, first woman elected mayor of Nouakchott, Mauritania^[303]

Anne Hidalgo, first woman elected Mayor of Paris^[304]

Mimoza Kusari-Lila, first woman elected mayor of Gjakova, Kosovo^[305]

Johanna Rolland, first woman elected mayor of Nantes, France

Gültan Kışanak, first woman elected mayor of Diyarbakır, Turkey^[306]

Joana Ntaja, first woman elected mayor of Zomba, Malawi^[307]

Celeste Sanchez, first woman elected mayor of San Benito, Texas, United States^[308]

Tana Raymond, first woman elected mayor of Garfield, New Jersey, United States^[309]

Mayra Peña Lindsay, first woman mayor of Key Biscayne, Florida, United States^[310]

Adriana Krnáčová, first woman elected mayor of Prague, Czech Republic^[311]

Sylivia Muzila, first woman elected mayor of Francistown, Botswana^[312]

Shaik Noorjahan, first woman elected mayor of Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India^[313]

Andrea Turčanová, first woman elected mayor of Prešov, Slovakia

Louise Carter-King, first woman elected mayor of Gillette, Wyoming, United States^[314]

Marian Deleon Guerrero Tudela, first woman mayor of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands^[315]

2015

Gail Ash, first woman elected mayor of Clermont, Florida, United States^[316]

Dr Zekra Alwach, first woman mayor of Baghdad, Iraq^[317][318]

Megan Barry, first woman elected mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, United States^[319]

Ada Colau, first woman elected mayor of Barcelona, Spain^[320]

Christine Dansereau, first woman elected mayor of Roselle, New Jersey, United States^[321][322]

Patahiyah Ismail, first woman mayor of Penang Island, Malaysia^[323]

Laura Hill, first woman elected mayor of Southlake, Texas, United States^[324]

Henriette Reker, first woman elected mayor of Cologne, Germany^[325]

Pravina Thakur, first woman elected mayor of Vasai-Virar, India^[326]

Karen Weaver, PhD, first woman elected mayor of Flint, Michigan, United States

2016

Gabriela Firea, first woman elected mayor of Bucharest, Romania

Lani Mercado, first woman elected Mayor of Bacoor, Philippines

Virginia Raggi, first woman elected mayor of Rome, Italy

Yuriko Koike, first woman elected governor of Tokyo, Japan^[327]

Milissa Holland, first woman elected mayor of Palm Coast, Florida^[328]

Marian Orr, first woman elected mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States^[329]

Maimunah Mohd Sharif, first woman municipal council president of Seberang Perai, Malaysia^[330][331]

Rosalynn Bliss, first woman elected as mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan

Michelle Roman, first woman elected as Mayor of Kingsburg, California ^[332]

2017

Loretta Baker, first woman elected mayor of Maitland, New South Wales, Australia^[333]

Sanyukta Bhatia, first woman elected mayor of Lucknow, India^[334]

Sharon Weston Broome first woman elected as Mayor-President of Baton Rouge

Tasha Cerda first woman and person of either African American and Native American descent to be elected Mayor of Gardena, California

also first person of Native American descent to be elected mayor in the state of California^[335]

Tjhai Chui Mie, first woman elected mayor of Singkawang, Indonesia^[336]

Joyce Craig first woman elected mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire, United States ^[337]

Ruthanne Fuller first woman elected mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, United States ^[338]

Lyda Krewson first woman elected mayor of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Anne McEnerny-Ogle first woman elected mayor of Vancouver, Washington, United States^[339]

Valérie Plante first woman elected mayor of Montreal, Québec, Canada

Carrie Schlade first woman elected mayor of Bryan, Ohio, United States^[340]

Yvonne M. Spicer first woman elected mayor of Framingham, Massachusetts, United States ^[341]

Lynn Spruill, first woman elected mayor of Starkville, Mississippi, United States .^[342]

Marla Thompson first woman elected mayor of Long View, North Carolina, United States ^[343]

Cassie Franklin would later become the first woman elected Mayor of Everett, Washington, United States

Daisy Raisler, first woman elected mayor of Hispanic descent of Lake Helen, Florida, United States

Carol Westfall, first woman elected mayor of Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States ^[344]

2018

Latoya Cantrell, first woman elected mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana^[345]

Michelle Kaufusi, first woman elected mayor of Provo, Utah^[346]

Leslie Hager-Smith, first woman elected mayor of Blacksburg, Virginia^[347]

Yvonne M. Spicer, first mayor of Framingham, Massachusetts, and first popularly elected African-American woman mayor in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts^[348]

Claudia Sheinbaum, first woman elected mayor of Mexico City, Mexico^[349]

Souad Abderrahim, first woman mayor of Tunis, Tunisia.

Femke Halsema, first woman mayor of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Treney Tweedy, first woman mayor of Lynchburg, Virginia.

See also

• Council of Women World Leaders
• List of the first female holders of political offices
• List of elected or appointed female heads of state
• List of elected or appointed female heads of government
• List of female governors in the United States
• List of female lieutenant governors in the United States
• List of female state attorneys-general in the United States

References