User:RayneVanDunem/List of first female mayors in the United States

California
1915
 * Estelle Lawton Lindsey, first woman to execute the duties of Mayor of Los Angeles, California when 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.

1916
 * Ellen French Aldrich, first woman elected mayor of Sawtelle, California

1929
 * Emily Jones, first woman elected mayor of Eureka, California

1948
 * Belle Cooledge, first female mayor of Sacramento, California

1968
 * Rena Parker, first woman mayor of Corona, California

1971
 * Lorette Wood, first woman mayor of Santa Cruz, California

1974
 * Janet Gray Hayes, first woman elected Mayor of San Jose, California
 * Hayes was also the first female mayor of a major U.S. city with more than 500,000 residents.

1976
 * Phyllis Sweeney, first woman elected mayor of Laguna Beach, California

1977
 * Eleanor Crouch, first woman elected mayor of Santa Paula, California

1978
 * Frances Prince, first woman to become mayor of Thousand Oaks, California (also served 1983–1984)

1979
 * Dianne Feinstein, first woman elected Mayor of San Francisco

1981
 * Mary K. Shell, first woman elected mayor of Bakersfield, California

1986
 * Maureen O'Connor, first woman elected mayor of San Diego, California

2011
 * Laura Roughton, first woman elected mayor of Jurupa Valley, California, United States and first mayor of Jurupa Valley, California

2012
 * Frances Ann Romero, first woman elected mayor of Guadalupe, California, United States

2017
 * 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)

Colorado
1916
 * C. I. Driver, first woman to serve as mayor of Lone Rock, Colorado following her appointment by the city council

1965
 * Norma O. Walker, first woman mayor of Aurora, Colorado and of a U.S. city with a population greater than 60,000

1969
 * Eve Homeyer, first woman elected mayor of Aspen, Colorado

1995
 * Mary Lou Makepeace, first woman mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado

Florida
1917
 * Marion Horowitz O'Brien, first woman who served as mayor of Moore Haven, Florida

1922
 * Dr. Josie Rogers, first woman mayor of Daytona, Florida

1928
 * Lena Culver Hawkins, first woman mayor of Brooksville, Florida

1961
 * Violet Kusbel Cimbora, first woman mayor of Masaryktown, Florida

1976
 * Dorothy Wilken, first woman elected mayor of Boca Raton, Florida

1978
 * Helen Wilkes, first woman to become Mayor of West Palm Beach, Florida

1987
 * Sandra Warshaw Freedman, first woman elected mayor of Tampa, Florida

2007
 * Matti Herrera Bower, first woman elected mayor of Miami Beach, Florida

2014
 * Mayra Peña Lindsay, first woman mayor of Key Biscayne, Florida, United States

2015
 * Gail Ash, first woman elected mayor of Clermont, Florida, United States

2016
 * Milissa Holland, first woman elected mayor of Palm Coast, Florida

2017
 * Daisy Raisler, first woman elected mayor of of Hispanic descent of Lake Helen, Florida, United States.

Georgia
1922
 * Alice Harrell Strickland, first woman elected mayor in the U.S. state of Georgia

1974
 * Carrie Kent, first African-American woman mayor of Walthourville, Georgia

1991
 * Susan Weiner, first woman elected Mayor of Savannah, Georgia

2001
 * Shirley Franklin, first woman and black woman elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

2010
 * Teresa Tomlinson, first woman elected mayor of Columbus, Georgia, United States

2012
 * Dorothy Hubbard, first woman elected mayor of Albany, Georgia, United States

Hawaii
1981
 * Eileen Anderson, first woman elected Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii

1991
 * Linda Lingle, first woman elected Mayor of Maui, Hawaii

Idaho
1898
 * Jesse Parker, the first woman mayor in the state of Idaho following her election in 1898 in Kendrick.

Illinois
1911
 * Kate F. O'Connor, first woman mayor of Arcadia, Illinois

1917
 * A. R. Canfield, first woman mayor of Warren, Illinois

1920
 * Unnamed woman mayor of Thebes, Illinois [population, 1920,857]

1979
 * Jane M. Byrne, first woman elected mayor of Chicago
 * Jane M. Byrne was also the first female mayor of any U.S. city with more than 1,000,000 residents. Also the first female mayor of any major U.S. city with more than 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 residents.

1983
 * Helen Westberg, first woman mayor of Carbondale, Illinois, United States

Indiana
1980
 * Patricia Logan, first woman elected mayor of Noblesville, Indiana

1999
 * Shirley Robb, first woman elected mayor of Princeton, Indiana

2006
 * Olga Velazquez, first woman elected mayor of Portage, Indiana

2007
 * Barbara Ewing, first female Democrat elected mayor of Tell City, Indiana

2007
 * Shawna M. Gurgis, first woman elected mayor of Bedford, Indiana

2011
 * Karen Freeman-Wilson, first woman elected mayor of Gary, Indiana, United States and first African-American woman elected mayor in the State of Indiana

Iowa
1862
 * Nancy Smith, first woman elected mayor in the United States in Oskaloosa, Iowa in 1862. Smith declined to serve as mayor.

1923
 * Emma J. Harvat, first woman elected mayor of Iowa City and first woman in the United States to be elected mayor of a city with more than 10,000 inhabitants

1973
 * Julianne M. Jensen was elected the first woman mayor of Knoxville, Iowa

2013
 * Diana Willits, first woman elected mayor of Windsor Heights, Iowa

Kansas
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 as well as the second woman mayor in Kansas. She served alongside the first all-woman city council in the United States. They were all re-elected in 1889.

1889
 * Lucy Sullivan, the first woman mayor of Baldwin, Kansas

1893
 * Barnes, elected the first woman mayor of Geuda Springs, Kansas in 1893.

1894
 * Anna Austin, the first woman mayor of Pleasanton, Kansas [population approx., 1,500]

1896
 * C. A. Curtis, the first woman mayor of Cimarron, Kansas
 * M. A. Wade, the first woman mayor of Ellis, Kansas. She served with an all-woman municipal government.

1897
 * Juno Strain, the first woman mayor of Jamestown, Kansas

1911 ::Ella Wilson, first woman mayor of Hunnewell, Kansas 1913
 * Defenbaugh, first woman elected mayor in Tyro, Kansas

1917
 * Avis Francis, first woman mayor of Valley Center, Kansas

1920
 * Louise Fussman, mayor Humboldt, Kansas [population, 1920, 2,525]

1975
 * Connie Ames Peters, first woman elected mayor of Wichita, Kansas

1997
 * Joan Wagnon, first woman elected of mayor of Topeka, Kansas

Kentucky
1951
 * Rebekah H. Hord, first woman mayer in Kentucky, Maysville Kentucky

Louisiana
1920
 * Lula V. Coleman, Deputy Sheriff of LaSalle Parish, is appointed Mayor of Jena, Louisiana by Governor John M. Parker as the first woman Mayor in Louisiana

1925
 * Maggie Skipwith Smith, first woman elected mayor in Louisiana

1956
 * Mary Estus Jones Webb, first woman to serve as Mayor-President of Baton Rouge, Louisiana

1990
 * Hazel Beard, first woman elected mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana

2017
 * (Sharon Weston Broome first woman elected as Mayor-President of Baton Rouge

2018
 * Latoya Cantrell, first woman elected mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana

Maryland
2001
 * Ellen O. Moyer, first woman elected mayor of Annapolis, Maryland

2007
 * Sheila Dixon, first black woman elected mayor of Baltimore, Maryland

Massachusetts
1939
 * Alice D. Burke, first woman elected as mayor in New England – in Westfield, Massachusetts and first woman

2005
 * Kim Driscoll, first woman elected mayor of Salem, Massachusetts

2007
 * Susan M. Kay, first woman elected mayor of Weymouth, Massachusetts

2017
 * Ruthanne Fuller first woman elected mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, United States
 * Yvonne Spicer first woman elected mayor of Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

Minnesota
1921
 * Lillian Cox Gault, first woman elected mayor of St. Peter, Minnesota and in any city of Minnesota

1921
 * Florence J. Pierce, the first woman elected mayor of Goodhue, Minnesota

1953
 * Agnes Israelson, first woman elected mayor in Thief River Falls, Minnesota

1992
 * Jane Robbins, first woman elected mayor of Pine City, Minnesota

1994
 * Sharon Sayles Belton, first woman and first African-American elected mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota

2008
 * Mary Rossing, first woman elected mayor of Northfield, Minnesota

2013
 * Del Rae Williams, first woman elected mayor of Moorhead, Minnesota, United States

Mississippi
1977
 * Unita Blackwell, first African American woman elected mayor in Mississippi, Mayersville, Mississippi

2001
 * Yvonne Brown, first black woman elected mayor of Tchula, Mississippi; first black Republican woman elected mayor in the state of Mississippi

2005
 * Sheriel F. Perkins, first woman and African American elected mayor of Greenwood, Mississippi

2009
 * Cheri Barry, first woman elected mayor of Meridian, Mississippi

2017
 * Lynn Spruill, first woman elected mayor of Starkville, MS.

Missouri
1921
 * Mayme Ousley, first woman elected mayor of St. James, Missouri
 * Ousley was also the first woman elected mayor in the state of Missouri

1924
 * Mildred Putnam, first woman elected mayor of Stoutsville, Missouri

1999
 * Kay Barnes, first woman elected Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri

2017
 * Lyda Krewson first woman elected mayor of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Nebraska
1921
 * Mary Peterson, first woman elected mayor of Red Cloud, Nebraska

1975
 * Helen Boosalis, first woman elected mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska

2006
 * Margaret Hornady, first woman elected mayor of Grand Island, Nebraska

2013
 * Jean Stothert, first woman elected mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Nevada
1985
 * Lorna Kesterson, first woman elected mayor of Henderson, Nevada

1999
 * Jan Laverty Jones, first woman elected Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada

New Hampshire
1944
 * Mary Carey Dondero, first woman mayor of Portsmouth, New Hampshire

2007
 * Donnalee Lozeau, first woman elected mayor of Nashua, New Hampshire

2017
 * Joyce Craig first woman elected mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire, United States

New Jersey
1925
 * Rebecca Estell Bourgeois Winston, first woman elected mayor in New Jersey:, first mayor and founder of Estell Manor

1950
 * Katharine Elkus White, first woman mayor of Red Bank, New Jersey

1951
 * Vera Martucci, first woman appointed mayor of Teterboro, New Jersey

1967
 * Mary "Peggy" Kerr, first woman mayor of Sayreville, New Jersey, elected with three female councilwomen, creating the first female-majority municipal government in New Jersey

1973
 * Eileen Lloyd, first woman elected mayor of Keansburg, New Jersey

1974
 * Eleanor Kieliszek, first woman elected Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey

1977
 * Maria Barnaby Greenwald, first woman elected mayor of Cherry Hill, New Jersey

2002
 * Nancy Merse, first woman mayor of Edgewater, New Jersey

2008
 * Wilda Diaz, first woman elected mayor of Perth Amboy, New Jersey

2013
 * Stacey Jordan, first woman elected mayor of Moorestown, New Jersey, United States

2014
 * Tana Raymond, first woman elected mayor of Garfield, New Jersey, United States

2015
 * Christine Dansereau, first woman elected mayor of Roselle, New Jersey, United States

New York
1937
 * Kathrine Wykle, mayor of Clyde, New York and first woman mayor in New York

1957
 * Elizabeth Hall, first woman mayor of Sag Harbor, New York
 * Betty Potter, first woman mayor of Mount Kisco, New York

1973
 * Barbara Impellittiere, first woman elected mayor of Cold Spring, New York

1974
 * Anne Kaplan, first woman mayor of Monticello, New York

1975
 * Ruth Blankman, first woman elected mayor of Canton, New York

1979
 * Virginia Smith, first woman mayor of Ticonderoga, New York

1981
 * Juanita Crabb, first woman elected Mayor of Binghamton, New York

1982
 * Juanita Crabb, first woman elected mayor of Binghamton, New York

1984
 * Karen Johnson, first woman elected mayor of Schenectady, New York

1987
 * Laura Slate, first woman elected mayor of Gouverneur, New York

1993
 * Shirley Seney, first woman mayor of Lake Placid, New York

2001
 * Sandra Strader, first woman elected mayor of Tupper Lake, New York

2008
 * Patricia Sweetland, first woman mayor of Adams, New York

2009
 * Stephanie Miner, first women elected mayor of Syracuse, New York

2013
 * Ashley Hennings, first woman elected mayor of Newport, New York, United States

2013
 * Lovely Warren, first woman elected mayor, and first African-American woman mayor of Rochester, New York, United States

2013
 * Trish Abato, first woman elected mayor of Suffern, New York, United States

2013
 * Kathy Sheehan, first woman elected mayor of Albany, New York, United States

North Carolina
1922
 * Maude R. Satterthwaite, first woman mayor of Stonewall, North Carolina

1975
 * Beth Finch, first woman elected mayor of Fayetteville, North Carolina

1977
 * Isabella Cannon, first woman elected mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina

1985
 * Ella Bengel, first woman elected mayor of New Bern, North Carolina

1987
 * Sue Myack, first woman elected Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina

1995
 * Rosemary Waldorf, first woman elected Mayor of Chapel Hill, North Carolina

1999
 * Jennifer Stultz, first woman elected mayor of Gastonia, North Carolina

2017
 * Marla Thompson first woman elected mayor of Long View, North Carolina, United States

Ohio
1921
 * Amy A. Kaukonen, first woman elected mayor in Fairport Harbor, Ohio

1923
 * Mary McFadden, first woman mayor of Magnetic Springs, Ohio who was appointed by the city council at the age of 80.

1954
 * Dorothy N. Dolbey, first woman elected mayor in Cincinnati, Ohio

1961
 * Myrtle Reed, first woman mayor of Grand River, Ohio

1972
 * Ellen Walker Craig-Jones of (Urbancrest, Ohio) became the first African-American woman to be elected mayor, by popular vote, of a United States municipality.

1984
 * Donna Owens, first woman elected Mayor of Toledo, Ohio

2001
 * Rhine McLin, first woman elected mayor of Dayton, Ohio

2001
 * Jane Leaver, first woman elected mayor of Medina, Ohio

2002
 * Jane L. Campbell, first woman elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio

2017
 * Carrie Schlade first woman elected mayor of Bryan, Ohio, United States

Oklahoma
1971
 * Patience Latting, first woman elected mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
 * Latting was also the first female mayor of any major U.S. city with more than 350,000 residents.

1992
 * M. Susan Savage, first woman elected mayor Tulsa, Oklahoma

Oregon
1895
 * Alice E. Burns, the first woman mayor in the state of Oregon following her victory in the 1895 municipal elections in Florence over newspaper publisher and former mayor B. F. Alley. Women were elected to all other town offices as well.

1912
 * Clara C. Munson, first woman mayor of Warrenton, Oregon and first woman elected mayor following the passage of the equal suffrage law in Oregon.
 * 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.

1914
 * Clara Latorette Larson, first woman elected mayor of Troutdale, Oregon

1917
 * Blanch Shelley, first woman elected mayor of Sandy, Oregon
 * Laura Jane Starcher, first woman elected mayor of Umatilla, Oregon

1920
 * Grace B. Lampshire, first woman elected mayor of Burns, Oregon and first woman elected mayor in Oregon by write-in vote

1949
 * Dorothy McCullough Lee, first woman mayor of Portland, Oregon

1955
 * Mary Van Stevens, first woman elected mayor of Heppner, Oregon
 * She resigned in 1956 after purchasing a business in The Dalles, Oregon.

1983
 * Sue Miller, first woman elected mayor of Salem, Oregon

1993
 * Ruth Bascom, first woman mayor of Eugene, Oregon

Pennsylvania
1977
 * Betty Marshall, first woman elected Mayor of York, Pennsylvania

1989
 * Janice Stork, first woman elected Mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania

1993
 * Anne Jones, first woman elected mayor of Pottstown, Pennsylvania

2009
 * Donna McFadden-Connors, first woman appointed mayor of Pittston, Pennsylvania
 * Linda Thompson, first women elected mayor of and first African-American mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Rhode Island
2008
 * Jeanne-Marie Napolitano, first woman mayor of Newport, Rhode Island

South Carolina
1992
 * Cheryll Woods-Flowers, first woman elected mayor of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

2008
 * Elise Partin, first woman elected mayor of Cayce, South Carolina
 * Alys Lawson, first woman elected mayor of Conway, South Carolina
 * Pam Lee, first woman elected mayor of Mullins, South Carolina

Tennessee
1940
 * Mary Ellen Presnell Brendle,first woman mayor of Englewood, Tennessee

1961
 * May Ross McDowell, first woman elected mayor of Johnson City, Tennessee

2011
 * Madeline Rogero, first woman elected mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

2015
 * Megan Barry, first woman elected mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Texas
1917
 * Ophelia “Birdie” Crosby Harwood, mayor of Marble Falls, Texas, first woman mayor in Texas, elected by an all-male vote three years before women were allowed to vote.

1975
 * Lila Cockrell, first woman elected mayor of San Antonio, Texas

1976
 * Adlene Harrison, first woman mayor of Dallas, Texas

1977
 * Carole Keeton Strayhorn, first woman elected mayor of Austin, Texas

1982
 * Kathryn J. Whitmire, first woman elected mayor of Houston, Texas

1985
 * Ann Pomykal, first woman elected mayor of Lewisville, Texas

1989
 * Suzie Azar, first woman elected mayor of El Paso, Texas

1999
 * Blanca Vela, first woman elected mayor of Brownsville, Texas

2014
 * Celeste Sanchez, first woman elected mayor of San Benito, Texas, United States

Utah
1912
 * Mary Elizabeth Woolley, mayor of Kanab, Utah, first woman mayor in Utah, and part of the first all-woman city council elected in the United States.

1992
 * Deedee Corradini, first woman elected mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah

2009
 * Mia Love, first women elected mayor Saratoga Springs, Utah and first black women mayor in Utah
 * Melissa Johnson, first women elected mayor of West Jordan, Utah

2013
 * Maile Wilson, first woman elected mayor of Cedar City, Utah, United States

2018
 * Michelle Kaufusi, first woman elected mayor of Provo, Utah

Vermont
1980
 * Janet Smith, first woman elected mayor of St. Albans, Vermont, less than a week after she was sworn-in Smith was shot an killed at her home.

Virginia
1962
 * Eleanor P. Sheppard, first woman elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia

1963
 * Ann Hitch Kilgore, first woman mayor of Hampton, Virginia

1986
 * Jessie M. Rattley, first woman and African American elected by fellow Council members as mayor of the City of Newport News

1988
 * Meyera E. Oberndorf, first woman elected mayor of Virginia Beach, Virginia

2008
 * Mimi Elrod, first woman elected mayor of Lexington, Virginia
 * Linda Johnson, first woman elected mayor of Suffolk, Virginia

2018
 * Nikuyah Walker, first African-American female mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Washington
1926
 * Bertha Knight Landes, first woman Mayor of Seattle, Washington and first woman mayor of a major American city

1953
 * Amanda Benek Smith, first woman mayor of Olympia, Washington

1975
 * Betty Edmondson, first woman mayor of Yakima, Washington

1977
 * Joyce Ebert, first woman to serve as mayor of Everett, Washington

2012
 * Kelli Linville, first woman elected mayor of Bellingham, Washington

2017
 * Anne McEnerny-Ogle first woman elected mayor of Vancouver, Washington, United States
 * Cassie Franklin, first woman elected Mayor of Everett, Washington

Wyoming
1912
 * Susan Wissler, mayor of Dayton, Wyoming and first woman mayor in Wyoming

1920
 * Grace Miller, first woman elected mayor of Jackson, Wyoming

2008
 * Nancy Tia Brown, first woman elected mayor of Cody, Wyoming

2014
 * Louise Carter-King, first woman elected mayor of Gilette, Wyoming, United States

2016
 * Marian Orr, first woman elected mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States