Mayor of Lexington, Kentucky | |
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Formation | 1832 |
First holder | Charlton Hunt |
Website | Office of the Mayor |
Elections in Kentucky |
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This is a list of mayors of Lexington, Kentucky. [1] [2] The city and Fayette County governments were consolidated in 1974. [3]
The current mayor is Linda Gorton, a registered Republican, elected in the nonpartisan 2018 mayoral election and reelected in the 2022 mayoral election. [4]
# | Mayor | Term start | Term end |
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1 | H. Foster Pettit | 1974 | 1978 |
2 | James G. Amato | 1978 | 1982 |
3 | Scotty Baesler | 1982 | 1993 |
4 | Pam Miller | 1993 | 2003 |
5 | Teresa Isaac | 2003 | 2007 |
6 | Jim Newberry | 2007 | 2011 |
7 | Jim Gray | 2011 | 2019 |
8 | Linda Gorton | 2019 | |
Mayor Linda Gorton is a registered Republican.