I want to inspire, to challenge and to create positive change.” As mayor, she has plans to host a youth forum, develop sports facilities in the Mernda area and embrace technology in council operations ...

Councilwoman Marlene Shaw plans to lead the invocation to honor all of Gulfport’s past city councilwomen Gulfport will also have a female mayor, Karen Love, for the second time in its history.

Lilija Stevens has defeated Mike Brownfield to become the first female mayor of Washington, with 100 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday night. Unofficial election results showed Stevens in the ...

QUINCY — Quincy has elected its first female mayor in the city’s history as former City Treasurer Linda Moore defeated incumbent Mike Troup in Tuesday’s election. Moore, who ran as an independent, won ...

Brownfield received about 45% of the vote. Stevens and Brownfield are city council members representing Ward 1. The mayor’s job became open when incumbent Mayor Gary Manier announced he would not seek ...

North Battleford may be “down by one heading into the third period,” but Mayor Kelli Hawtin says it’s time to “switch up the strategy” and go for the win. At her first State of the City Address ...

COLUMBUS—Kathleen McMillan, a trailblazer as the first female mayor of Columbus, left an indelible mark on her community and touched many lives. Sadly, she passed away at the age of 97 on September 28 ...

After nearly a decade on the Tampa City Council, Sandra Freedman became the first woman to chair it in 1983. Three years later, she became the first female mayor of Tampa until 1995. Freedman said it ...

He became an Alderman in 1930 and Mayor again in 1932, 1933 & 1934. It was during this last term of office that he died at the age of 63, in March 1935. Helena Isabelle Young was elected for the ...

The Daily Tar Heel’s Eva Edwards spoke with Chapel Hill’s first female mayor, Rosemary Waldorf, about her time serving the Town from 1995 to 2001. This interview has been edited for brevity ...