List of first female mayors
The first woman mayor recorded is believed to be Susanna Madora Salter of the United States who served as mayor of Argonia, Kansas in 1887. Since then women have been elected as mayors in cities around the world.
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1880s
1887
- Susanna M. Salter, first woman mayor in United States and first female mayor of Argonia, Kansas, United_States
1890s
1893
- Elizabeth Yates, first woman mayor in the British Empire and first female mayor of Onehunga, New Zealand[1]
1900s
1908
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, first woman mayor in England and first female mayor of Aldeburgh, United Kingdom[2]
1910s
1912
- Mary Elizabeth Woolley, first woman mayor in Utah and part of the first all-woman city council elected in the United States.
1918
- Maria Skobtsova, first woman mayor in the former Russian Empire and first female mayor of Anapa, Russia.[3]
1920s
1920
- Lula V. Coleman, Deputy Sheriff of LaSalle Parish, is appointed Mayor of Jena, Louisiana by Governor John M. Parker as the first woman Mayor in Louisiana[4]
1921
1922
- Alice Harrell Strickland, first woman elected mayor in the U.S. state of Georgia[9]
1923
- Emma J. Harvat, first woman elected mayor of Iowa City and first woman in the United States to be elected mayor of a city with more than 10,000 inhabitants[10]
- Janet Stancomb-Wills, first woman mayor of Ramsgate, Kent, England[11]
1924
- Matilde Pérez Mollá, first woman elected mayor in Spain, (city of Gorga, Spain)
1925
- Rebecca Estell Bourgeois Winston, first woman elected mayor in New Jersey:,[12] first mayor and founder of Estell Manor
- Maggie Skipwith Smith, first woman elected mayor in Louisiana[13]
1926
- Bertha Knight Landes, first woman Mayor of Seattle, Washington and first woman mayor of a major American city[14]
- Aasa Helgesen, first woman elected mayor of Utsira and first female mayor in Norway
1927
- Alzira Soriano de Souza, first female appointed mayor in Brasil, and also first female mayor of Lages
- Fanne Gaar, first woman elected mayor in Arizona, mayor of Casa Grande, Arizona[15]
1928
- Lena Culver Hawkins, first lady mayor in the state of Florida. Mayor of Brooksville, Florida
- Alzira Soriano, first woman elected mayor in Latin America, mayor of Lajes, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
1930s
1930
- Luiza Zavloschi, first woman elected mayor in Romania when elected for Buda (Bogdănești)
1935
- Alicia Cañas, first female elected mayor in Chile, the first of Providencia
1936
- Barbara Hanley, first women elected mayor in Canada when elected to office in Webbwood, Ontario
1937
- Ines V. Serion, the first woman elected mayor in Philippines – elected in Vallehermoso, Negros Oriental
1938
- Lilian Fowler, first woman mayor in Australia, at Newtown[16]
- Lady Gwladys Delamere, first woman mayor of Nairobi, Kenya[17]
1939
- Kathleen Clarke, first woman Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland
- Graciela Contreras, first woman elected mayor in Santiago, Chile
- Alice D. Burke, first woman elected as mayor in New England – in Westfield, Massachusetts and first woman[18]
1940s
1941
- Elsie Chamberlain, first woman mayor of Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales[19]
- Marie Elizabeth May Bell, first woman mayor of Windhoek, Namibia
1942
- Gladys Maasdorp, first woman mayor of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (today's Harare, Zimbabwe)
1944
- Mary Carey Dondero, first woman mayor of Portsmouth, New Hampshire[20][21]
1945
- Odette Roux, first woman mayor of Les Sables-d'Olonne and the first woman mayor in France
1946
- Truus Beliën, first woman mayor of Oost-, West- en Middelbeers and the first woman mayor in Netherlands
- Luise Albertz, first woman elected mayor in Oberhausen and the first elected female mayor (Oberbürgermeisterin) in Germany
- Felisa Rincón de Gautier, first woman mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico and first woman mayor of a capital city in United States soil
1947
- Louise Schroeder, first female mayor of Berlin, Germany
- Sarah G. Leffler, first female mayor of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and the first woman elected mayor in Pennsylvania[22]
1948
- Zenzi Hölzl, first female mayor of Gloggnitz and also the first female mayor in Austria
- Belle Cooledge, first female mayor of Sacramento, California
1949
- Beryl Archibald Crichlow, first female mayor of San Fernando, and the first woman elected mayor in Trinidad and Tobago
- Dorothy McCullough Lee, first woman mayor of Portland, Oregon
1950s
1950
- Erika Keck, first woman elected mayor in Ahrensburg and the first elected female mayor (Bürgermeisterin) in Germany
- Katharine Elkus White, first woman mayor of Red Bank, New Jersey
- Müfide İlhan, first woman elected mayor in Turkey and of Mersin
1951
- Charlotte Whitton, first woman elected mayor of Ottawa, Ontario
- Olga Maturana, first woman elected Mayor of Pichilemu, Chile
1953
- Agnes Israelson, first woman elected mayor in Minnesota
1954
- Dorothy N. Dolbey, first woman elected mayor in Cincinnati, Ohio[23]
- Emílie Knotková, first woman elected mayor in Liberec, Czechoslovakia
1956
- Smt. Sulochana M. Modi, first woman elected mayor in Mumbai, India
- Maria Desylla-Kapodistria, first woman elected mayor in Greece and of Corfu (city)
- Dorothy Edwards, first woman elected mayor in Tasmania, Australia and of Launceston[24]
1957
1958
- Aruna Asaf Ali, first woman elected mayor in Dehli, India
- Tara Cherian, first woman elected mayor in Chennai, India
- Iris Winnifred King, first woman elected mayor in Kingston, Jamaica
- Aldamira Guedes Fernandes, first woman elected mayor in Brasil and also first female mayor of Quixeramobim
- Ester Roa, first woman elected mayor in Concepción, Chile
1959
- Jane Dowdall, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Cork, Ireland
- Joyce Newton Thompson, first woman elected mayor of Cape Town, South Africa
1960s
1960
- Auður Auðuns, first woman mayor of Reykjavik, Iceland
1961
- Barbara Saben, first woman mayor of Kampala, Uganda
- May Ross McDowell, first woman elected mayor of Johnson City, Tennessee[25]
- Violet Kusbel Cimbora, first woman elected mayor in Florida. Mayor of Masaryktown, Florida
1963
- Eleanor Parker Sheppard, first woman mayor of Richmond, Virginia
- Ann Hitch Kilgore, first woman mayor of Hampton, Virginia
- Anita Fernandini de Naranjo, first woman mayor of Lima, Peru
1964
1965
- Norma O. Walker, first woman mayor of Aurora, Colorado and of a U.S. city with a population greater than 60,000
- Grace Onyango, first woman elected mayor of Kisumu, Kenya and the first African woman who was a mayor of an African city[26]
1966
- Constance Cummings-John, first appointed woman mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Nellie Beer, first elected female Lord mayor of Manchester, United Kingdom
1967
- Norma Villareal de Zambrano, first woman mayor in Mexico
- Ann Uccello, first woman mayor of Hartford, Connecticut and first female mayor of a U.S. state capital
- Grace Hartman, first woman mayor of Sudbury, Ontario
- Janet Wesonga, first woman mayor of Mbale, Uganda
- Mary "Peggy" Kerr, first woman mayor of Sayreville, New Jersey, elected with three female councilwomen, creating the first female-majority municipal government in New Jersey
1968
- Lise Girardin, first woman Mayor of Geneva, Switzerland
- Rena Parker, first woman mayor of Corona, California[27]
- Silvia Boza, first woman mayor of Las Condes, Chile
- Hsu Shih-hsien, first woman mayor of Chiayi City and first female mayor of a city on Taiwan
1969
- Pilar Careaga Basabe, first woman mayor of Bilbao, Spain
- Eve Homeyer, first woman elected mayor of Aspen, Colorado[28]
1970s
1970
- Margaret Kenyatta, first black female mayor of Nairobi, Kenya
- Dabir Azam Hosna, first woman elected mayor of Ahvaz, Iran
- Colette Flesch, first woman elected mayor of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
1971
- Patience Latting, first woman elected mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma[29]
- Latting was also the first female mayor of any major U.S. city with more than 350,000 residents.[29]
- Lorette Wood, first woman mayor of Santa Cruz, California[30]
- Patience Latting, first woman elected mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma[29]
1972
- Ellen Walker Craig-Jones of (Urbancrest, Ohio) became the first African-American woman to be elected mayor, by popular vote, of a United States municipality.
1973
- Eileen Lloyd, first woman elected mayor of Keansburg, New Jersey
- Marjorie Alice Brown, first woman elected Lord mayor of Birmingham, United Kingdom
1974
- Janet Gray Hayes, first woman elected Mayor of San Jose, California[31]
- Hayes was also the first female mayor of a major U.S. city with more than 500,000 residents.[31]
- Carrie Kent, first African American woman mayor of Walthourville, Georgia
- Anne Kaplan, first woman mayor of Monticello, NY
- Janet Gray Hayes, first woman elected Mayor of San Jose, California[31]
1975
- Joy Cummings, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Newcastle (New South Wales), Australia
- Ella Stack, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Darwin, Australia
- Mary Byrne, first woman elected mayor of Galway, Ireland
- Beth Finch, first woman elected mayor of Fayetteville, North Carolina[32]
- Helen Boosalis, first woman elected mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska
- Ione Christensen, first woman elected mayor of Whitehorse, Yukon[33]
- Lila Cockrell, first woman elected mayor of San Antonio, Texas
1976
- Francisque Collomb, first woman elected mayor of Lyon, France
- Sofía Medina de López, first woman elected mayor of Medellín, Colombia
- Margaret Hance, first woman elected Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona[34]
- Adlene Harrison, first woman mayor of Dallas, Texas
- Dorothy Wilken, first woman elected mayor of Boca Raton, Florida[35]
- Phyllis Sweeney, first woman elected mayor of Laguna Beach, California[36]
1977
- Isabella Cannon, first woman elected mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina[37]
- Unita Blackwell, first African American woman elected mayor in Mississippi, Mayersville, Mississippi
- Mathilde Schroyens, first woman elected mayor of Antwerp, Belgium
- Carole Keeton Strayhorn, first woman elected mayor of Austin, Texas
- Betty Marshall, first woman elected Mayor of York, Pennsylvania[38]
- Eleanor Crouch, first woman elected mayor of Santa Paula, California[39]
- Maria Barnaby Greenwald, first woman elected mayor of Cherry Hill, New Jersey[40]
1978
- Enma González, first elected female Mayor of Vigo, Spain
- Dusty Miller, first woman elected Mayor of Thunder Bay, Ontario
- Marjorie Carroll, first woman elected Mayor of Waterloo, Ontario
- Helen Wilkes, first woman to become Mayor of West Palm Beach, Florida[41]
1979
- Jane M. Byrne, first woman elected mayor of Chicago
- Jane M. Byrne was also the first female mayor of any U.S. city with more than 1,000,000 residents. Also the first female mayor of any major U.S. city with more than 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 residents.
- Dianne Feinstein, first woman elected mayor of San Francisco
- Núria Albó, first woman elected mayor of La Garriga, Spain
- Jane M. Byrne, first woman elected mayor of Chicago
1980s
1980
- Patricia Logan, first woman elected mayor of Noblesville, Indiana
1981
- Eileen Anderson, first woman elected mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii
- Violet Khouri, first woman elected mayor of Kafr Yasif and the first Arab female mayor in Israel
- Mary K. Shell, first woman elected mayor of Bakersfield, California[42]
1982
- Hsu Shih-Hsien, first woman elected mayor of Chiayi City and the first woman elected mayor in Taiwan[43]
- Kathryn J. Whitmire, first woman elected mayor of Houston, Texas
- Tina Tomlje, first woman mayor of Ljubljana, present Slovenia
- Juanita Crabb, first woman elected mayor of Binghamton, New York
1983
- Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington, first woman elected Lord Mayor of London, United Kingdom
- Luiza Erundina, first woman elected mayor of São Paulo, Brasil
- Wendy Chapman, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Adelaide, Australia
- Elizabeth Kishkon, first woman elected mayor of Windsor, Ontario
- Catherine Tizard, first woman elected mayor of Auckland, New Zealand[44]
- Helen Westberg, first woman mayor of Carbondale,_Illinois, United_States[45]
- Elda Pucci, first woman elected mayor of Palermo, Italy and first female mayor of an Italian city
1984
- Daurene Lewis, first black female mayor in Nova Scotia (Annapolis Royal)[46]
- Mary Kate Stovall, first female, first African American mayor of Hurtsboro, Alabama
1985
- Sallyanne Atkinson, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Australia
- Lorna Kesterson, first woman elected mayor of Henderson, Nevada[47]
- Ella Bengel, first woman elected mayor of New Bern, North Carolina[48]
- Ann Pomykal, first woman elected mayor of Lewisville, Texas[49]
1986
- Alexis Ord, first woman elected mayor of Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Australia
- Gretchen Brewin, first woman elected mayor of Victoria, British Columbia
- Doone Kennedy, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Hobart, Tasmania[50]
- Maria Luíza Fontenele, first woman elected mayor of Fortaleza, Brasil
- Maureen O'Connor, first woman elected mayor of San Diego, California
1987
- Maria Magnani Noya, first woman elected mayor of Turin, Italy
- Carrie Saxon Perry, first woman elected mayor of Hartford, Connecticut
- Sandra Warshaw Freedman, first woman elected mayor of Tampa, Florida[51]
- May Cutler, first woman elected mayor of Westmount, Quebec
1988
- Sophie Masloff, first woman elected Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Luiza Erundina, first woman elected mayor of São Paulo, Brazil
1989
- Catherine Trautmann, first woman elected mayor of Strasbourg, France
- Jan Reimer, first woman elected mayor of Edmonton, Alberta
- Vicki Buck, first woman elected Mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand[52]
- Krystyna Nesteruk, first woman elected mayor of Katowice, Poland
- Janice Stork, first woman elected Mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania[53]
- Suzie Azar, first woman elected mayor of El Paso, Texas
1990s
1990
- Sharon Pratt Kelly, first woman elected Mayor of the District of Columbia
- Hazel Beard, first woman elected mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana
1991
- June Rowlands, first woman elected mayor of Toronto, Ontario
- Linda Lingle, first woman elected Mayor of Maui, Hawaii
- Rita Barberá, first woman elected mayor of Valencia, Spain
- Moira Leiper Ducharme, first woman elected mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia[54]
- Susan Weiner, first woman elected Mayor of Savannah, Georgia[55]
- Ana Rosa Payán, first woman elected mayor of Mérida, Mexico
- Harue Kitamura, first woman elected mayor of Ashiya, Japan
1992
- Sonia Durán de Infante, first woman in function of mayor of Bogotá, Colombia
- Cheryll Woods-Flowers, first woman elected mayor of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
- Ann-Marit Sæbønes, first woman elected mayor of Oslo, Norway
- Jane Robbins, first woman elected mayor of Pine City, Minnesota
- Deedee Corradini, first woman elected mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah
- M. Susan Savage, first woman elected mayor Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Susan Thompson, first woman elected mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Fran Wilde, first woman elected mayor of Wellington, New Zealand[56]
1993
- Rita Cutajar, first woman mayor of Għasri (Gozo), and also first female mayor in Malta
- Slobodanka Gruden, first woman elected mayor of Belgrade, Serbia
- Ildikó Asztalos, first woman elected mayor of Miskolc, Hungary
- Agnethe Davidsen, first woman elected mayor of Nuuk, Greenland
- Ruth Bascom, first woman mayor of Eugene, Oregon[57]
- Anne Jones, first woman elected mayor of Pottstown, Pennsylvania[58]
1994
- Sharon Sayles Belton, first woman and first African-American elected mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Marie-Luise Smeets, first woman elected mayor of Düsseldorf, Germany
- Dagmar Lastovecká, first woman elected mayor of Brno, Czech Republic
1995
- Mary Lou Makepeace, first woman mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado[59]
- Joan Shafer, first woman elected mayor of Surprise, Arizona[60]
- Petra Roth first woman elected mayor of Frankfurt, Germany
- Ivi Eenmaa, first woman mayor of Tallinn, Estonia[61]
- Soledad Becerril, first elected female mayor of Seville, Spain
- Luisa Fernanda Rudi, first elected female mayor of Saragossa, Spain
- Celia Villalobos, first elected female mayor of Málaga, Spain
- Rosemary Waldorf, first woman elected Mayor of Chapel Hill, North Carolina[62]
1996
- Eva-Riitta Siitonen, first woman elected mayor of Helsinki, Finland
- Marina Matulović-Dropulić, first woman in function of mayor of Zagreb, Croatia (appointed 1996, elected 1997)
1997
- Sarojini Yogeswaran, first woman elected mayor of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
1998
- Elżbieta Grabarek-Bartoszewicz, first woman elected mayor of Gdańsk, Poland
- Yael German, first woman elected mayor of Herzliya, Israel
- Vilma Santos, first woman elected mayor of Lipa City, Philippines
- Miriam Feirberg, first woman elected mayor of Netanya, Israel
1999
- Patricia Nawa, first woman elected mayor of Lusaka, Zambia[63]
- Blanca Vela, first woman elected mayor of Brownsville, Texas[64]
- Jan Laverty Jones, first woman elected Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada
- Kay Barnes, first woman elected Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
- Jennifer Stultz, first woman elected mayor of Gastonia, North Carolina
- Shirley Robb, first woman elected mayor of Princeton, Indiana[65]
- Rosa Aguilar, first woman elected mayor of Córdoba, Spain
- Yolanda Barcina, first woman elected mayor of Pamplona, Spain
- Paz Fernández, first woman elected mayor of Gijón, Spain
- Theresia Samaria, first woman elected mayor of Walvis Bay, Namibia
2000s
2000
- Izalene Tiene, first woman elected mayor of Campinas, Brasil
2001
- Yvonne Brown, first black woman elected mayor of Tchula, Mississippi; 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[66]
- Rhine McLin, first woman elected mayor of Dayton, Ohio
- Shirley Franklin, first woman and black woman elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
- Jane Leaver, first woman elected mayor of Medina, Ohio[67]
- Ellen O. Moyer, first woman elected mayor of Annapolis, Maryland
- 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
2002
- Jane L. Campbell, first woman elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio
- Dora Bakoyannis, first woman elected mayor of Athens, Greece
- Annika Billström, first woman elected mayor of Stockholm, Sweden
- Danica Simšič, first woman elected mayor of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Hilde Zach, first woman elected mayor of Innsbruck, Austria[68]
- Nancy Merse, first woman mayor of Edgewater, New Jersey[69]
- Brigitte Fouré, first woman elected mayor of Amiens, France
2003
- Lucy Turnbull, first woman Lord Mayor of Sydney, Australia
- Asma Chaabi, first female mayor of Essaouira, and the first woman elected mayor in Morocco
- Angelika Volquartz, first woman mayor of Kiel, Germany
- Laine Jänes, first woman mayor of Tartu, Estonia[70]
- Valentina Matviyenko, first woman mayor of Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Josefa Luzardo, first woman mayor of Las Palmas, Spain
- Catalina Cirer, first woman mayor of Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2004
2005
- Kim Driscoll, first woman elected mayor of Salem, Massachusetts[73]
- 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[74]
- Dianne Watts, first woman elected mayor of Surrey, British Columbia[75]
- Janet Mikhail, first woman mayor of Ramallah and first woman mayor of a West Bank town[76]
- Violeta Menjívar, first woman mayor of San Salvador, El Salvador
- Mercy Williams, first woman mayor of Kochi, India[77]
- Prof. R Bindhu, first woman mayor of Thrissur, India[77]
2006
- Eleni Mavrou, first woman elected mayor of Nicosia, Cyprus[78]
- 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
- Margaret Hornady, first woman elected mayor of Grand Island, Nebraska
- Aissa Kirabo Kakira, first woman elected mayor of Kigali, Rwanda[79]
2007
- Chen Wei, first woman elected mayor of Pingliang, China
- Donnalee Lozeau, first woman elected mayor of Nashua, New Hampshire[80]
- April Capone Almon, first woman elected mayor of East Haven, Connecticut
- Matti Herrera Bower, first woman elected mayor of Miami Beach, Florida[81]
- Sheila Dixon, first black woman elected mayor of Baltimore, Maryland
- Barbara Ewing, first female Democrat elected mayor of Tell City, Indiana[82]
- Susan M. Kay, first woman elected mayor of Weymouth, Massachusetts[83]
- Shawna M. Gurgis, first woman elected mayor of Bedford, Indiana[84]
- Lisa Scaffidi, first woman elected mayor of Perth, Australia
- 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, Rizal, Philippines
2008
- Sylviana Murni, first woman elected mayor of Central Jakarta and first female mayor in Indonesia
- Elise Partin, first woman elected mayor of Cayce, South Carolina
- Alys Lawson, first woman elected mayor of Conway, South Carolina[85]
- Pam Lee, first woman elected mayor of Mullins, South Carolina[86]
- Mimi Elrod, first woman elected mayor of Lexington, Virginia[87]
- Patricia Sweetland, first woman mayor of Adams, New York
- Jeanne-Marie Napolitano, first woman mayor of Newport, Rhode Island[88]
- Mary Rossing, first woman elected mayor of Northfield, Minnesota[89]
- Nancy Tia Brown, first woman elected mayor of Cody, Wyoming[90]
- Wilda Diaz, first woman elected mayor of Perth Amboy, New Jersey[91]
- Linda Johnson, first woman elected mayor of Suffolk, Virginia
- 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 Pueblo, Mexico
- Sonia Castedo, first woman mayor of Alicante, Spain
- Azra Jafari, first woman mayor of Nili and first woman mayor in Afghanistan (appointed)[92]
- Eva Habil, first woman elected mayor of Komboha and first woman mayor in Egypt[93]
2009
- Corine Mauch, first woman elected mayor of Zurich, Switzerland[94]
- Donna McFadden-Connors, first woman appointed mayor of Pittston, Pennsylvania[95]
- Cheri Barry, first woman elected mayor of Meridian, Mississippi[96]
- Fumiko Hayashi, first woman elected mayor of Yokohama, Japan
- Banda Karthika Reddy, first woman elected mayor of Hyderabad, India
- Stephanie Miner, first women elected mayor of Syracuse, New York
- Mia Love, first women elected mayor Saratoga Springs, Utah and first black women mayor in Utah
- Melissa Johnson, first women elected mayor of West Jordan, Utah
- Linda Thompson, first women elected mayor of and first African-American mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- Yordanka Fandakova, first woman elected mayor of Sofia, Bulgaria
- Natasha Navas, first woman elected mayor of Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago
2010s
2010
- Shari Decter Hirst, first woman elected mayor of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
- Ana Olivera, first woman elected mayor of Montevideo, Uruguay
- Debbie Amaroso, first woman elected mayor of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
- Teresa Tomlinson, first woman elected mayor of Columbus, Georgia, United_States[97]
- Hanna Zdanowska, first woman elected mayor of Łódź, Poland
- Elaine Trepper, first black woman mayor of Windhoek, Namibia
- Katarína Macháčková, first woman mayor of Prievidza, Slovakia
- Kazumi Inamura, first woman mayor of Amagasaki, Japan
2011
- Madeline Rogero, first woman elected mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, United_States
- Laura Roughton, first woman elected mayor of Jurupa Valley, California, United_States and first mayor of Jurupa Valley, California[98]
- Karen Freeman-Wilson, first woman elected mayor of Gary, Indiana, United_States and first African-American woman elected mayor in the State of Indiana
- Ana Botella, first woman elected mayor of Madrid, Spain[99]
- Salina Hayat Ivy, first woman elected mayor of Narayanganj, Bangladesh[100]
- Adelina Farici, first woman elected mayor of Burrel, Albania
2012
- Halyna Hereha, first woman appointed mayor of Kiev, 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
- Margarita Arellanes Cervantes, first woman elected mayor of Monterrey, Mexico
- Vera Baboun, first woman elected mayor of Bethlehem, Palestine
2013
- Cecelia Oba Tito, first woman elected mayor of Yei, South Sudan and also the first female mayor in South Sudan[101]
- Ashley Hennings, first woman elected mayor of Newport, New York, United_States[102]
- Jean Stothert, first woman elected mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, United_States
- Lovely Warren, first woman elected mayor, and first African-American woman mayor of Rochester, New York, United_States[103]
- Trish Abato, first woman elected mayor of Suffern, New York, United_States[104]
- Marni Sawicki, first woman elected mayor of Cape Coral, Florida, United_States[105]
- Del Rae Williams, first woman elected mayor of Moorhead, Minnesota, United_States[106]
- Deb Hinchey, first woman elected mayor of Norwich, Connecticut, United_States[107]
- Maile Wilson, first woman elected mayor of Cedar City, Utah, United_States[108]
- Kathy Sheehan, first woman elected mayor of Albany, New York, United_States[109]
- Toni Harp, first woman elected mayor, and first female African-American mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, United_States[110]
- Anita Dugatto, first woman elected mayor of Derby, Connecticut, United_States[111]
- Stacey Jordan, first woman elected mayor of Moorestown, New Jersey, United_States[112]
- Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, first woman elected mayor of Malmö, Sweden
- Teuta Arifi, first woman elected mayor of Tetovo, Macedonia
- Catherine Samba-Panza, probably the first woman elected mayor of Bangui, Central African Republic
- Dorine Chukowry, first woman elected mayor of Port Louis, Mauritius[113]
- Olga Rasamimanana, first woman elected mayor of Antananarivo, Madagascar
- Priscilla Arhin, probably the first woman elected mayor of Cape Coast, Ghana
- Diana Willits, first woman elected mayor of Windsor Heights, Iowa
2014
- Maty Mint Hamady, first woman elected mayor of Nouakchott, Mauritania[114]
- Anne Hidalgo, first woman elected Mayor of Paris[115]
- Mimoza Kusari-Lila, first woman elected mayor of Gjakova, Kosovo[116]
- Johanna Rolland, first woman elected mayor of Nantes, France
- Gültan Kışanak, first woman elected mayor of Diyarbakır, Turkey[117]
- Joana Ntaja, first woman elected mayor of Zomba, Malawi[118]
- Celeste Sanchez, first woman elected mayor of San Benito, Texas, United_States[119]
- Tana Raymond, first woman elected mayor of Garfield, New Jersey, United_States[120]
- Mayra Peña Lindsay, first woman mayor of Key Biscayne, Florida, United_States[121]
- Adriana Krnáčová, first woman elected mayor of Prague, Czech Republic[122]
- Sylivia Muzila, first woman elected mayor of Francistown, Botswana[123]
- Andrea Turčanová, first woman elected mayor of Prešov, Slovakia
- Louise Carter-King, first woman elected mayor of Gilette, Wyoming, United_States[124]
2015
- Gail Ash, first woman elected mayor of Clermont, Florida, United_States[125]
- Dr Zekra Alwach, first woman mayor of Baghdad, Iraq[126][127]
- Christine Dansereau, first woman elected mayor of Roselle, New Jersey, United_States[128][129]
- Ada Colau, first woman elected mayor of Barcelona, Spain[130]
- Megan Barry, first woman elected mayor of Nashville, Tennessee[131]
- Henriette Reker, first woman elected mayor of Cologne, Germany[132]
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