Sila María Calderón Serra is a Puerto Rican politician,businesswoman,and philanthropist who was the governor of Puerto Rico from 2001 to 2005. She is the first woman elected to that office. Prior to her term as governor,Calderón held various positions in the government of Puerto Rico,including the 12th Secretary of State of Puerto Rico from 1988 to 1989,and Chief of Staff to Governor Rafael Hernández Colón. She was also mayor of San Juan,the capital of Puerto Rico,from 1997 to 2001.
Roxanne Qualls is an American politician who served as the 66th mayor of Cincinnati,Ohio. She also served a two-year term on the Cincinnati City Council prior to her service as mayor,having been elected in 1991. On August 8,2007,the Charter Committee announced her appointment to fill the unexpired term of council member Jim Tarbell. Qualls was elected to a two-year term on Cincinnati City Council in November 2007,and again in 2009 and 2011. She served as Vice Mayor,the chair of the Budget and Finance Committee,chair of the Livable Communities Committee and chair of the Subcommittee on Major Transportation and Infrastructure Projects.
Theodora "Dora" Bakoyanni is a Greek politician. From 2006 to 2009 she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece,the highest position ever to have been held by a woman in the Cabinet of Greece at the time;she was also Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 2009. Previously she was the Mayor of Athens from 2003 to 2006,the first female mayor in the city's history,and the first woman to serve as mayor of a city hosting the Olympic Games. She also served as Minister for Culture of Greece from 1992 to 1993.
Carol Bellamy is an American nonprofit executive and former politician. She is chair of the board of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF). Previously,she was director of the Peace Corps,executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF),and president and CEO of World Learning. She is also the chair of children's rights advocacy organization ECPAT International,working to end the sexual exploitation of children. After three terms in the New York State Senate,she was the first woman to be elected to any citywide office in NYC as President of the New York City Council,a position she held until her unsuccessful bid for Mayor of New York in 1985;she was the second to last person to hold this position.
Kay Waldo Barnes is a former American politician and two-term Mayor of Kansas City,Missouri,and the first woman to be elected to the office.
Carla J. Shatz is an American neurobiologist and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,the American Philosophical Society,the National Academy of Sciences,and the National Academy of Medicine.
Mary Lou Makepeace is an American politician who served as the mayor of Colorado Springs,Colorado from 1997 to 2003. She was the first woman to hold that position.
Carolyn Jean Chumney is an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. She served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1991 to 2003 and represented the fifth district on the Memphis,Tennessee City Council from 2004 to 2007. Chumney came in second place in the Democratic primary for Shelby County mayor in 2002 and within 7 points of being elected the first woman Memphis mayor in 2007. Chumney was a leading attorney taking the fight for election security to the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress. She is also the author of "The Arena:One Woman's Story" [Lady Justice Publishing 2021] which has won national recognition,including First Place At-Large Autobiography by the National Federation of Press Women. Chumney is now an elected Shelby County Circuit Court Judge and took office on September 1,2022 after winning the countywide election.
Peggy Wilton McKercher,is a Canadian conservationist and university administrator.
Tomilea "Tomi" Allison was the mayor of Bloomington,Indiana from 1983 to 1995 and served on the city council from 1977 to 1982. A native of Madera,California,she majored in sociology at Occidental College,where she received a bachelor's degree in 1955. From 1957 through 1959 she worked as a deputy probation officer for Fresno and San Bernardino counties. Her two daughters,Devon and Leigh,were born in Ann Arbor,Michigan,where her husband,James,was a graduate student in the University of Michigan Department of Psychology. The family moved to Bloomington in 1963,when he joined the psychology faculty at Indiana University.
Shirley Todd Huffman was an American politician and legal secretary in the U.S. state of Oregon. Raised in Dayton,Oregon,she settled in Hillsboro,Oregon,where she served on the city council before serving two terms as mayor from 1985 to 1993. During her time as mayor,plans for the Westside Light Rail were approved,with Huffman receiving credit for the extension into downtown Hillsboro. After leaving office,she served on the board of directors of TriMet and as a development coordinator for the city.
Stephanie Ann Miner is an American attorney,politician,and former Mayor of Syracuse,New York. Miner served as Mayor of Syracuse from 2010 to 2018,and is the first woman to have held that office. Prior to her mayoralty,she was a member of the Syracuse City Council. Miner co-chaired the New York State Democratic Party from 2012 to 2014. In 2018,Miner ran unsuccessfully for Governor of New York on the newly-created Serve America Movement line.
The 2001 United States elections were held on November 6 of that year. The 2001 recession was a dominant issue throughout the year as well as the September 11 attacks and subsequent war on terror.
The mayor of Kansas City,Kansas is the highest official of the city government. In 1997,voters approved the consolidation of Kansas City,Kansas government with that of Wyandotte County. The office has since been referred to as "mayor/CEO" of the "United Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City,Kansas." However,in popular terms,the head executive is called the mayor.
Bellaflor Javier Angara-Castillo,simply known as Bella Angara,is a former member of the Philippine House of Representatives representing the lone district of Aurora. She previously served three consecutive terms as governor of Aurora province from 2004 to 2013. She was the third female governor of Aurora province. Prior to being governor,she served three consecutive terms as representative of the lone district of Aurora from 1995 to 2004. She was the first and so far the only woman in the history of the Philippine Congress to become House majority floor leader.
Marie C. Cox was a Comanche activist who worked on legislation for Native American children. She received many accolades for her efforts including the 1974 Indian Leadership Award from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and state recognition that same year as the Outstanding Citizen of Oklahoma from Governor David Hall. She was named as an Outstanding Indian Woman of 1977 by the North American Indian Women's Association,and served on the National Advisory Council on Indian Education from 1983 to 1990. In 1993,she was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame for her work with foster children and the founding of the North American Indian Women's Association.
Mpho Louisa Phalatse is a South African medical doctor and politician who was the Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. A member of the Democratic Alliance,she served in the position from 22 November 2021 until her ousting in a motion of no-confidence on 26 January 2023. She is the first woman to serve as mayor of the metropolitan municipality,which was established in 2000. She is the first black woman to serve as mayor of the city of Johannesburg and only the second female mayor of the city after Jessie McPherson,who served from 1945 to 1946.
Tyrone A. Garner is an American politician and retired police officer who is currently serving as the 30th mayor of Kansas City,Kansas since 2021. He previously served as the deputy chief of the Kansas City Police Department (KCKPD).
Elbra Mae Wedgeworth is a civil servant in Denver,Colorado. Wedgeworth is the only person in recent history to hold positions in all three branches of Denver's city government.
