List of mayors of Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Last updated

Mayor of Chapel Hill
Incumbent
Jessica Anderson
since 2015
StatusActive
Formation1869 (1869)
First holderHugh Blair Guthrie
Website www.townofchapelhill.org

The Mayor of Chapel Hill is the head of the governing and legislative body of the town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. As chair of the eight-member town council, [1] the mayor presides over all meetings of the council and may vote on all issues before the council. [2]

The mayor is recognized as the official head of the town for civil processes by the courts and ceremonial processes by the public. The mayor is the principal representative of the council for relations with federal, state, and other local governments. [2]

The duties of the town council – of which the mayor presides – are "to adopt and provide for the execution of such ordinances, rules, and regulations ... as may be necessary or appropriate to protect health, life, or property, or to preserve or promote the comfort, convenience, security, good order, better government, or the general welfare of the town or its inhabitants". [3]

Members of the council are chosen in a nonpartisan election; councilors serve staggered four-year terms, and the mayor serves two-year terms. [4] Candidates must be registered voters and residents of Chapel Hill but while in office not appointed to any other paid government position. [5] Councilors and the mayor must disclose all property held in the town, [6] as well as one's business interests. [7]

As with all members of the council, the mayor may be excused from voting on matters involving the member's official or financial conduct. Otherwise, a member's lack of a vote when the member is present is deemed an affirmative vote. [8]

A vacancy in the office is to be filled for the remainder of the term. Should a quorum on the council (of a majority of members) [9] not be obtained, the mayor may appoint enough members to make a quorum, and the council shall fill the other vacancies. (In the absence of the mayor, the governor may fill the vacancies.) [10]

Before 1879, the mayor was a magistrate hired by the Board of Commissioners to exercise police powers. An 1879 amendment to the town charter formalized this role. An 1895 charter amendment established the mayor as a position elected by the town's citizens. John H. Watson became the first person elected as mayor on May 5, 1895. [11]

List

#MayorTerm startTerm end
1 Hugh Blair Guthrie 18691872
2 John H. Watson 18721872
3 John W. Carr 18731874
4 John White 18741874
5 Andrew Mickel 18741876
6 John H. Watson 18761879
7 Merritt Cheek 18791882
8 Jones Watson 18821883
9 John H. Watson 18831884
10 A.J. McDade 18841885
11 John H. Watson 18851887
12 William N. Pritchard 18871888
13 A.J. McDade 18881891
14 John H. Watson 18911895
15 Algernon S. Barbee 18951901
16 James C. MacRae Jr. 19011903
17 William S. Roberson 19031907
18 Algernon S. Barbee 19071911
19 William S. Roberson 19111913
20 L.P. McLendon 19131914
21 William S. Roberson 19141927
22 Zebulon Council 19271933
23 John M. Foushee 19331942
24 R.W. Madry 19421949
25 Edwin S. Lanier 19491954
26 Oliver K. Cornwell 19541961
27 Roland McClamroch 19611969
28 Howard Nathaniel Lee 19691975
29 James Wallace 19751979
30 Joseph L. Nassif 19791985
31 James Wallace 19851987
32 Jonathan Howes 19871991
34 Kenneth Broun 19911995
35Rosemary Waldorf19952001
36 Kevin Foy 20012009
37 Mark Kleinschmidt 20092015
38 Pam Hemminger 20152023
39 Jessica Anderson 2023Incumbent

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References

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  1. ↑ Code of Ordinances: Charter, Chapter III, Sec. 3.1
  2. 1 2 Code of Ordinances: Charter, Chapter III, Sec. 3.6(b)
  3. ↑ Code of Ordinances: Charter, Chapter III, Sec. 3.5(b)
  4. ↑ Code of Ordinances: Charter, Chapter II, Sec. 2.1
  5. ↑ Code of Ordinances: Charter, Chapter II, Sec. 2.2
  6. ↑ Code of Ordinances: Chapter II, Article III, Sec. 2-49
  7. ↑ Code of Ordinances: Chapter II, Article III, Sec. 2-50
  8. ↑ Code of Ordinances: Charter, Chapter III, Sec. 3.4(b)
  9. ↑ Code of Ordinances: Charter, Chapter III, Sec. 3.4(a)
  10. ↑ Code of Ordinances: Chapter II, Article II, Sec. 2-24
  11. ↑ "History of Chapel Hill." Archived 2006-10-08 at the Wayback Machine Town of Chapel Hill Official Website. Accessed October 23, 2008.
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