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The following is a list of the first woman to serve as
mayor of their respective
municipalities .
2000s
2000
Lore Christopher , first woman elected mayor of
Keizer, Oregon , United States
[1]
Alison Grosse first woman elected mayor of the
Shire of Maroochy , Queensland, Australia
[2]
[3]
2001
Izalene Tiene , first woman elected mayor of
Campinas , Brazil
[4]
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
[5]
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
[6]
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
[7]
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
[8]
Nancy Merse , first woman mayor of
Edgewater, New Jersey , United States
[9]
Danica Simšič , first woman elected mayor of
Ljubljana , Slovenia
Hilde Zach , first woman elected mayor of
Innsbruck , Austria
[10]
Lou Ann Christensen , first woman elected mayor of
Brigham City, Utah , United States
[11]
Milada Halíková, first woman elected mayor of
Havířov , Czech Republic
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
[12]
Laine Jänes , first woman mayor of
Tartu , Estonia
[13]
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
[14]
Manorama Dobriyal Sharma , first woman mayor of
Dehradun ,
Uttarakhand , India
[15]
Carolyn Terteling-Payne , first woman
Mayor of Boise, Idaho , United States
[16]
Rose Garland Thornton , first woman mayor pro tem of
Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan
[17]
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.
[18]
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
[19]
Maja Gojković , first woman mayor of
Novi Sad , Serbia
Aminata Thiam , probably the first woman mayor of
Dakkar , Senegal
[20]
Oumou Sall Seck , first woman mayor of
Goundam , Mali
[21]
Dianna Freelon-Foster , the first woman and first African-American mayor of
Grenada, Mississippi , United States
[22]
[23]
2005
Kim Driscoll , first woman elected mayor of
Salem, Massachusetts , United States
[24]
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
[25]
Dianne Watts , first woman elected mayor of
Surrey, British Columbia , Canada
[26]
Janet Mikhail , first woman mayor of
Ramallah , Palestine
also the first woman mayor of a West Bank town
[27]
Violeta Menjívar , first woman mayor of
San Salvador , El Salvador
Mercy Williams , first woman mayor of
Kochi, India
[28]
Prof. R Bindhu , first woman mayor of
Thrissur , India
[28]
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
[29]
2006
Patricia Christensen , first woman elected mayor of
Port St. Lucie, Florida , United States
[30]
Eleni Mavrou , first woman elected mayor of
Nicosia , Cyprus
[31]
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
[32]
Irena Ondrová , first woman elected mayor of
Zlín , Czech Republic
[33]
2007
Rita Ellis , first woman elected mayor of
Delray Beach, Florida , United States
[34]
Chen Wei , first woman elected mayor of
Pingliang , China
Donnalee Lozeau , first woman elected mayor of
Nashua, New Hampshire , United States
[35]
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
[36]
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
[37]
Susan M. Kay, first woman elected mayor of
Weymouth, Massachusetts , United States
[38]
Shawna M. Gurgis, first woman elected mayor of
Bedford, Indiana
[39]
Lisa Scaffidi , first woman elected mayor of
Perth , Australia
Katrina Shimbulu , first woman mayor of
Oshakati , Namibia
[40]
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 , Philippines
2008
Sylviana Murni , first woman appointed mayor of
Central Jakarta , Indonesia
[41]
Elise Partin, first woman elected mayor of
Cayce, South Carolina , United States
Alys Lawson, first woman elected mayor of
Conway, South Carolina , United States
[42]
Pam Lee, first woman elected mayor of
Mullins, South Carolina , United States
[43]
Mimi Elrod, first woman elected mayor of
Lexington, Virginia , United States
[44]
Patricia Sweetland, first woman mayor of
Adams, New York , United States
Jeanne-Marie Napolitano, first woman mayor of
Newport, Rhode Island , United States
[45]
Mary Rossing, first woman elected mayor of
Northfield, Minnesota , United States
[46]
Nancy Tia Brown, first woman elected mayor of
Cody, Wyoming , United States
[47]
Wilda Diaz , first woman elected mayor of
Perth Amboy, New Jersey , United States
[48]
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
Puebla , Mexico
Sonia Castedo , first woman mayor of
Alicante , Spain
Azra Jafari , first woman appointed mayor of
Nili and first woman mayor in
Afghanistan
[49]
Eva Habil , first woman elected mayor of
Komboha and first woman mayor in
Egypt
[50]
2009
Cheri Barry , first woman elected mayor of
Meridian, Mississippi , United States
[51]
Maria Teresa Beccari , first woman elected mayor of
City of San Marino
Donna McFadden-Connors, first woman appointed mayor of
Pittston, Pennsylvania , United States
[52]
Yordanka Fandakova , first woman elected mayor of
Sofia , Bulgaria
Fumiko Hayashi , first woman elected mayor of
Yokohama , Japan
Melissa Johnson, first woman elected mayor of
West Jordan, Utah , United States
Jyoti Khandelwal , first woman mayor of
Jaipur , India
[53]
Mia Love , first woman elected mayor
Saratoga Springs, Utah and first black woman mayor in
Utah
Corine Mauch , first woman elected mayor of
Zürich , Switzerland
[54]
Stephanie Miner , first woman 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 woman elected mayor of
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , United States
also the first African American mayor of Harrisburg
Kimiko Kubota , first woman mayor of
Ube, Yamaguchi , Japan
[55]
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
[56]
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
[57]
Katarína Macháčková , first woman mayor of
Prievidza , Slovakia
Selma Nelumbu , first woman mayor of
Omaruru, Namibia
[58]
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
Tri Rismaharini , first woman elected mayor of
Surabaya , Indonesia
2011
Ana Botella , first woman designated mayor of
Madrid , Spain
[59]
Charlotte Brower , first woman elected mayor of
North Slope Borough, Alaska , United States
[60]
Joyce Chepkoech Korir , first woman elected mayor of
Bomet , Kenya
[61]
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
[62]
Grace Mahosi , first woman elected mayor of
Thulamela ,
Limpopo , South Africa
[63]
Lilian Osundwa , first woman elected mayor of
Mumias , Kenya
[64]
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
[65]
Teresa Tomlinson , first woman elected mayor of
Columbus, Georgia , United States
[66]
Jean Quan , first woman elected mayor of
Oakland , California, United States
also the first Asian American mayor of Oakland
[67]
Mercy Wanjiku Kimwe , first woman elected mayor of
Muranga , Kenya
[68]
2012
Joanna Gash , first woman elected mayor of
Shoalhaven , Australia
[69]
Jodie Harrison , first woman elected mayor of
Lake Macquarie , Australia
[70]
Halyna Hereha , first woman appointed mayor of
Kyiv , 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 , United States
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
[71]
2013
Trish Abato , first woman elected mayor of
Suffern, New York , United States
[72]
Alinah Ahmad , first woman mayor of
Petaling Jaya , Malaysia
[73]
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
[74]
Karen Cadieux , first woman mayor of
Easthampton, Massachusetts
[75]
Usha Chaudhary , first woman mayor of
Kashipur ,
Uttarakhand , India
[76]
Dorine Chukowry , first woman elected mayor of
Port Louis , Mauritius
[77]
Renu Dabla , first woman elected mayor of
Rohtak , India
[78]
Agnes Delgado-Tolentino , first woman elected mayor of
Tagaytay , Philippines
[79]
Anita Dugatto , first woman elected mayor of
Derby, Connecticut , United States
[80]
Belen Fernandez , first woman elected mayor of
Dagupan , Philippines
[81]
Toni Harp , first woman elected mayor, and first female African-American mayor of
New Haven, Connecticut , United States
[82]
Ashley Hennings , first woman elected mayor of
Newport, New York , United States
[83]
Deb Hinchey , first woman elected mayor of
Norwich, Connecticut , United States
[84]
Stacey Jordan, first woman elected mayor of
Moorestown, New Jersey , United States
[85]
Soni Koli , first woman mayor of
Rudrapur ,
Uttarakhand , India
[86]
Cecilia Oba Tito , first woman elected mayor of
Yei, South Sudan and also the first female mayor in
South Sudan
[87]
Kathy Sheehan , first woman elected mayor of
Albany, New York , United States
[88]
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
[89]
Lovely Warren , first woman elected mayor, and first African-American woman mayor of
Rochester, New York , United States
[90]
Del Rae Williams , first woman elected mayor of
Moorhead, Minnesota , United States
[91]
Diana Willits , first woman elected mayor of
Windsor Heights, Iowa , United States
Maile Wilson , first woman elected mayor of
Cedar City, Utah , United States
[92]
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
[93]
Lourdes "Baby" S. Cataquiz , first woman elected mayor of
San Pedro, Laguna , Philippines
[94]
Maty Mint Hamady , first woman elected mayor of
Nouakchott , Mauritania
[95]
Anne Hidalgo , first woman elected
Mayor of Paris , France
[96]
Mimoza Kusari-Lila , first woman elected mayor of
Gjakova , Kosovo
[97]
Johanna Rolland , first woman elected mayor of
Nantes , France
Lisa Helps , first woman elected mayor of
Victoria, British Columbia , Canada
Gültan Kışanak , first woman elected mayor of
Diyarbakır , Turkey
[98]
Joana Ntaja , first woman elected mayor of
Zomba, Malawi
[99]
Celeste Sanchez , first woman elected mayor of
San Benito, Texas , United States
[100]
Tana Raymond , first woman elected mayor of
Garfield, New Jersey , United States
[101]
Mayra Peña Lindsay , first woman mayor of
Key Biscayne, Florida , United States
[102]
Adriana Krnáčová , first woman elected mayor of
Prague , Czech Republic
[103]
Sylvia Muzila , first woman elected mayor of
Francistown , Botswana
[104]
Shaik Noorjahan , first woman elected mayor of
Eluru ,
Andhra Pradesh , India
[105]
Andrea Turčanová , first woman elected mayor of
Prešov , Slovakia
Louise Carter-King , first woman elected mayor of
Gillette, Wyoming , United States
[106]
Marian Tudela , first woman mayor of
Saipan , Northern Mariana Islands
[107]
Liesbeth Spies , first woman mayor of
Alphen aan den Rijn , Netherlands
(since 15 December 2014)
[108]
2015
Gail Ash , first woman elected mayor of
Clermont, Florida , United States
[109]
Zekra Alwach , first woman mayor of
Baghdad , Iraq
[110]
[111]
Megan Barry , first woman elected mayor of
Nashville , Tennessee, United States
[112]
Manuela Carmena , first woman elected mayor of
Madrid , Spain
[113]
Ada Colau , first woman elected mayor of
Barcelona , Spain
[114]
Christine Dansereau , first woman elected mayor of
Roselle, New Jersey , United States
[115]
[116]
Patahiyah Ismail , first woman mayor of
Penang Island , Malaysia
[117]
Laura Hill , first woman elected mayor of
Southlake, Texas , United States
[118]
Henriette Reker , first woman elected mayor of
Cologne , Germany
[119]
Pravina Thakur , first woman elected mayor of
Vasai-Virar , India
[120]
Karen Weaver , PhD, first woman elected mayor of
Flint, Michigan , United States
Věra Nechybová, first woman mayor of
Ústí nad Labem , Czech Republic
[121]
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
[122]
Milissa Holland , first woman elected mayor of
Palm Coast, Florida , United States
[123]
Lily Mei , first woman elected mayor of
Fremont, California , United States
[124]
Marian Orr, first woman elected mayor of
Cheyenne, Wyoming , United States
[125]
Maimunah Mohd Sharif , first woman municipal council president of
Seberang Perai , Malaysia
[126]
[127]
Rosalynn Bliss , first woman elected as
mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan , United States
Michelle Roman, first woman elected as Mayor of
Kingsburg, California , United States
[128]
2017
Loretta Baker , first woman elected mayor of
Maitland, New South Wales , Australia
[129]
Sanyukta Bhatia , first woman elected mayor of
Lucknow , India
[130]
Sharon Weston Broome first woman elected as
Mayor-President of Baton Rouge , Louisiana, United States
Tasha Cerda, first woman to be elected Mayor of
Gardena, California , United States
Also the first person of either African American and Native American descent to be elected mayor of Gardena and the first person of Native American descent to be elected mayor in the state of California.
[131]
Tjhai Chui Mie , first woman elected mayor of
Singkawang , Indonesia
[132]
Joyce Craig , first woman elected mayor of
Manchester, New Hampshire , United States
[133]
Ruthanne Fuller , first woman elected mayor of
Newton, Massachusetts , United States
[134]
Lyda Krewson , first woman elected mayor of
Saint Louis, Missouri , United States
Diane Langman , first woman elected mayor of
Warfield, British Columbia , Canada
[135]
Anne McEnerny-Ogle , first woman elected mayor of
Vancouver, Washington , United States
[136]
Valérie Plante , first woman elected mayor of
Montreal , Quebec, Canada
Yvonne M. Spicer , first woman elected mayor of
Framingham, Massachusetts , United States
[137]
Lynn Spruill , first woman elected mayor of
Starkville, Mississippi , United States
.
[138]
Cassie Franklin , first woman elected Mayor of Everett, Washington, United States
Carol Westfall , first woman elected mayor of
Klamath Falls, Oregon , United States
[139]
2018
Souad Abderrahim became the first elected female mayor of
Tunisia on 3 July 2018.
Latoya Cantrell , first woman elected mayor of
New Orleans, Louisiana (since 7 May 2018)
[140]
Souad Abderrahim , first woman mayor of
Tunis , Tunisia in its first local election (since 3 July 2018)
[141]
Femke Halsema , first woman elected mayor of
Amsterdam , Netherlands (since 12 July 2018)
[142]
Einat Kalisch-Rotem , first woman elected mayor of
Haifa , Israel (since 20 November 2018)
[143] see:
2018 Haifa mayoral election
Anita Mamgain , first woman mayor of
Rishikesh ,
Uttarakhand , India
[144]
Hemlata Negi , first woman mayor of
Kotdwar ,
Uttarakhand , India
[145]
Lisa Pasin , first woman elected mayor of
Trail, British Columbia , Canada
[146]
Anita Sharma , first woman mayor of
Haridwar ,
Uttarakhand , India
[147]
Claudia Sheinbaum , first woman elected mayor of
Mexico City , Mexico (since 5 December 2018)
[148]
2019
Aleksandra Dulkiewicz , first woman mayor of
Gdańsk , Poland (since 11 March 2019)
[149]
Claudia López , first woman elected mayor of
Bogotá , Colombia (since 27 October 2019)
[150]
Juliana Kaduya , first female mayor of
Lilongwe , Malawi (2019–2021)
[151]
Safiya Hassan Sheikh Ali Jimale , Mayor of
Beledweyne , first woman mayor in
Somalia (since 2019)
[152]
2020s
2020
Ella Jones , first woman and elected mayor of
Ferguson, Missouri
also the first African American woman elected mayor
[153]
Michèle Rubirola , first woman mayor of
Marseille, France
[154]
Saleema McCree Thomas , first woman elected mayor of
Point Fortin , Trinidad and Tobago (since 26 August 2020).
[155]
2021
Nyachek De-tuel , first woman mayor of
Bentiu
[156]
Kim Janey , acting mayor of
Boston
[157]
First Black mayor of Boston
Michelle Wu , first woman elected mayor of Boston
[158]
First Asian mayor of Boston
2022
Honey Lacuna , first woman mayor of
Manila , Philippines
[159]
Maila Ting-Que, first woman mayor of
Tuguegarao , Philippines
[160]
Dagmar Škodová Parmová, first woman mayor of
České Budějovice , Czech Republic
[161]
Pavlína Springerová, first woman mayor of
Hradec Králové , Czech Republic
[162]
2023
Flora Gabriel Modi , first woman mayor of
Juba
[163]
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