User:RayneVanDunem/List of first female mayors in the United States

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States

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California

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1915

Estelle Lawton Lindsey, first woman to execute the duties of Mayor of Los Angeles, California when mayor Henry R. Rose was absent from his post in September 1915 and directed Lindsey, a member of the city council, to fill-in as acting mayor.[1]

1916

Ellen French Aldrich, first woman elected mayor of Sawtelle, California[2]

1929

Emily Jones, first woman elected mayor of Eureka, California[3]

1948

Belle Cooledge, first female mayor of Sacramento, California

1968

Rena Parker, first woman mayor of Corona, California[4]

1971

Lorette Wood, first woman mayor of Santa Cruz, California[5]

1974

Janet Gray Hayes, first woman elected Mayor of San Jose, California[6]
Hayes was also the first female mayor of a major U.S. city with more than 500,000 residents.[6]

1976

Phyllis Sweeney, first woman elected mayor of Laguna Beach, California[7]

1977

Eleanor Crouch, first woman elected mayor of Santa Paula, California[8]

1978

Frances Prince, first woman to become mayor of Thousand Oaks, California (also served 1983–1984)[9]

1979

Dianne Feinstein, first woman elected Mayor of San Francisco

1981

Mary K. Shell, first woman elected mayor of Bakersfield, California[10]

1986

Maureen O'Connor, first woman elected mayor of San Diego, California

2011

Laura Roughton, first woman elected mayor of Jurupa Valley, California, United States and first mayor of Jurupa Valley, California[11]

2012

Frances Ann Romero, first woman elected mayor of Guadalupe, California, United States

2017

Tasha Cerda first woman and person of either African American and Native American descent to be elected Mayor of Gardena, California(also first person of Native American descent to be elected mayor in the state of California)[12]

Colorado

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1916

C. I. Driver, first woman to serve as mayor of Lone Rock, Colorado following her appointment by the city council[13]

1965

Norma O. Walker, first woman mayor of Aurora, Colorado and of a U.S. city with a population greater than 60,000

1969

Eve Homeyer, first woman elected mayor of Aspen, Colorado[14]

1995

Mary Lou Makepeace, first woman mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado[15]


Florida

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1917

Marion Horowitz O'Brien, first woman who served as mayor of Moore Haven, Florida[16]

1922

Dr. Josie Rogers, first woman mayor of Daytona, Florida[17]

1928

Lena Culver Hawkins, first woman mayor of Brooksville, Florida[citation needed]

1961

Violet Kusbel Cimbora, first woman mayor of Masaryktown, Florida

1976

Dorothy Wilken, first woman elected mayor of Boca Raton, Florida[18]

1978

Helen Wilkes, first woman to become Mayor of West Palm Beach, Florida[19]

1987

Sandra Warshaw Freedman, first woman elected mayor of Tampa, Florida[20]

2007

Matti Herrera Bower, first woman elected mayor of Miami Beach, Florida[21]

2014

Mayra Peña Lindsay, first woman mayor of Key Biscayne, Florida, United States[22]

2015

Gail Ash, first woman elected mayor of Clermont, Florida, United States[23]

2016

Milissa Holland, first woman elected mayor of Palm Coast, Florida[24]

2017

Daisy Raisler, first woman elected mayor of of Hispanic descent of Lake Helen, Florida, United States.

Georgia

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1922

Alice Harrell Strickland, first woman elected mayor in the U.S. state of Georgia[25]

1974

Carrie Kent, first African-American woman mayor of Walthourville, Georgia

1991

Susan Weiner, first woman elected Mayor of Savannah, Georgia[26]

2001

Shirley Franklin, first woman and black woman elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

2010

Teresa Tomlinson, first woman elected mayor of Columbus, Georgia, United States[27]

2012

Dorothy Hubbard, first woman elected mayor of Albany, Georgia, United States[28]

Hawaii

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1981

Eileen Anderson, first woman elected Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii

1991

Linda Lingle, first woman elected Mayor of Maui, Hawaii

Idaho

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1898

Jesse Parker, the first woman mayor in the state of Idaho following her election in 1898 in Kendrick.[29]

Illinois

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1911

Kate F. O'Connor, first woman mayor of Arcadia, Illinois[30]

1917

A. R. Canfield, first woman mayor of Warren, Illinois[31]

1920

Unnamed woman mayor of Thebes, Illinois [population, 1920,857] [32]

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.

1983

Helen Westberg, first woman mayor of Carbondale, Illinois, United States[33]

Indiana

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1980

Patricia Logan, first woman elected mayor of Noblesville, Indiana

1999

Shirley Robb, first woman elected mayor of Princeton, Indiana[34]

2006

Olga Velazquez, first woman elected mayor of Portage, Indiana

2007

Barbara Ewing, first female Democrat elected mayor of Tell City, Indiana[35]

2007

Shawna M. Gurgis, first woman elected mayor of Bedford, Indiana[36]

2011

Karen Freeman-Wilson, first woman elected mayor of Gary, Indiana, United States and first African-American woman elected mayor in the State of Indiana

Iowa

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1862

Nancy Smith, first woman elected mayor in the United States in Oskaloosa, Iowa in 1862.[37][38] Smith declined to serve as mayor.[39]

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[40]

1973

Julianne M. Jensen was elected the first woman mayor of Knoxville, Iowa

2013

Diana Willits, first woman elected mayor of Windsor Heights, Iowa

Kansas

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1887

Susanna M. Salter, the first woman to serve a term as mayor in United States, and first female mayor of Argonia, Kansas, United States

1888

Mary D. Lowman, the first woman elected mayor of Oskaloosa, Kansas as well as the second woman mayor in Kansas. She served alongside the first all-woman city council in the United States.[41] They were all re-elected in 1889.[42]

1889

Lucy Sullivan, the first woman mayor of Baldwin, Kansas[43]

1893

Barnes, elected the first woman mayor of Geuda Springs, Kansas in 1893.[44]

1894

Anna Austin, the first woman mayor of Pleasanton, Kansas[45] [population approx., 1,500][46]

1896

C. A. Curtis, the first woman mayor of Cimarron, Kansas[47]
M. A. Wade, the first woman mayor of Ellis, Kansas. She served with an all-woman municipal government.[48]

1897

Juno Strain, the first woman mayor of Jamestown, Kansas[49]

1911 ::Ella Wilson, first woman mayor of Hunnewell, Kansas[50] 1913

Defenbaugh, first woman elected mayor in Tyro, Kansas[51]

1917

Avis Francis, first woman mayor of Valley Center, Kansas[52]

1920

Louise Fussman, mayor Humboldt, Kansas [population, 1920, 2,525] [32]

1975

Connie Ames Peters, first woman elected mayor of Wichita, Kansas[53]

1997

Joan Wagnon, first woman elected of mayor of Topeka, Kansas[54]

Kentucky

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1951

Rebekah H. Hord, first woman mayer in Kentucky, Maysville Kentucky

Louisiana

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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[55]

1925

Maggie Skipwith Smith, first woman elected mayor in Louisiana[56]

1956

Mary Estus Jones Webb, first woman to serve as Mayor-President of Baton Rouge, Louisiana

1990

Hazel Beard, first woman elected mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana

2017

(Sharon Weston Broome first woman elected as Mayor-President of Baton Rouge

2018

Latoya Cantrell, first woman elected mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana[57]

Maryland

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2001

Ellen O. Moyer, first woman elected mayor of Annapolis, Maryland

2007

Sheila Dixon, first black woman elected mayor of Baltimore, Maryland

Massachusetts

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1939

Alice D. Burke, first woman elected as mayor in New England – in Westfield, Massachusetts and first woman[58]

2005

Kim Driscoll, first woman elected mayor of Salem, Massachusetts[59]

2007

Susan M. Kay, first woman elected mayor of Weymouth, Massachusetts[60]

2017

Ruthanne Fuller first woman elected mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, United States[61]
Yvonne Spicer first woman elected mayor of Framingham, Massachusetts, United States[62]

Minnesota

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1921

Lillian Cox Gault, first woman elected mayor of St. Peter, Minnesota and in any city of Minnesota[63][64]

1921

Florence J. Pierce, the first woman elected mayor of Goodhue, Minnesota[65]

1953

Agnes Israelson, first woman elected mayor in Thief River Falls, Minnesota

1992

Jane Robbins, first woman elected mayor of Pine City, Minnesota

1994

Sharon Sayles Belton, first woman and first African-American elected mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota

2008

Mary Rossing, first woman elected mayor of Northfield, Minnesota[66]

2013

Del Rae Williams, first woman elected mayor of Moorhead, Minnesota, United States[67]

Mississippi

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1977

Unita Blackwell, first African American woman elected mayor in Mississippi, Mayersville, Mississippi

2001

Yvonne Brown, first black woman elected mayor of Tchula, Mississippi; first black Republican woman elected mayor in the state of Mississippi

2005

Sheriel F. Perkins, first woman and African American elected mayor of Greenwood, Mississippi

2009

Cheri Barry, first woman elected mayor of Meridian, Mississippi[68]

2017

Lynn Spruill, first woman elected mayor of Starkville, MS.[69]

Missouri

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1921

Mayme Ousley, first woman elected mayor of St. James, Missouri
Ousley was also the first woman elected mayor in the state of Missouri

1924

Mildred Putnam, first woman elected mayor of Stoutsville, Missouri[70]

1999

Kay Barnes, first woman elected Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri

2017

Lyda Krewson first woman elected mayor of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Nebraska

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1921

Mary Peterson, first woman elected mayor of Red Cloud, Nebraska[71]

1975

Helen Boosalis, first woman elected mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska

2006

Margaret Hornady, first woman elected mayor of Grand Island, Nebraska

2013

Jean Stothert, first woman elected mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Nevada

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1985

Lorna Kesterson, first woman elected mayor of Henderson, Nevada[72]

1999

Jan Laverty Jones, first woman elected Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada

New Hampshire

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1944

Mary Carey Dondero, first woman mayor of Portsmouth, New Hampshire[73][74]

2007

Donnalee Lozeau, first woman elected mayor of Nashua, New Hampshire[75]

2017

Joyce Craig first woman elected mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire, United States[76]

New Jersey

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1925

Rebecca Estell Bourgeois Winston, first woman elected mayor in New Jersey:,[77] first mayor and founder of Estell Manor

1950

Katharine Elkus White, first woman mayor of Red Bank, New Jersey

1951

Vera Martucci, first woman appointed mayor of Teterboro, New Jersey[78]

1967

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

1973

Eileen Lloyd, first woman elected mayor of Keansburg, New Jersey

1974

Eleanor Kieliszek, first woman elected Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey[79]

1977

Maria Barnaby Greenwald, first woman elected mayor of Cherry Hill, New Jersey[80]

2002

Nancy Merse, first woman mayor of Edgewater, New Jersey[81]

2008

Wilda Diaz, first woman elected mayor of Perth Amboy, New Jersey[82]

2013

Stacey Jordan, first woman elected mayor of Moorestown, New Jersey, United States[83]

2014

Tana Raymond, first woman elected mayor of Garfield, New Jersey, United States[84]

2015

Christine Dansereau, first woman elected mayor of Roselle, New Jersey, United States[85][86]

New York

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1937

Kathrine Wykle, mayor of Clyde, New York and first woman mayor in New York[87]

1957

Elizabeth Hall, first woman mayor of Sag Harbor, New York[88]
Betty Potter, first woman mayor of Mount Kisco, New York[89]

1973

Barbara Impellittiere, first woman elected mayor of Cold Spring, New York[90]

1974

Anne Kaplan, first woman mayor of Monticello, New York[91]

1975

Ruth Blankman, first woman elected mayor of Canton, New York[92]

1979

Virginia Smith, first woman mayor of Ticonderoga, New York[93]

1981

Juanita Crabb, first woman elected Mayor of Binghamton, New York[94]

1982

Juanita Crabb, first woman elected mayor of Binghamton, New York

1984

Karen Johnson, first woman elected mayor of Schenectady, New York[95]

1987

Laura Slate, first woman elected mayor of Gouverneur, New York[96]

1993

Shirley Seney, first woman mayor of Lake Placid, New York[97]

2001

Sandra Strader, first woman elected mayor of Tupper Lake, New York[98]

2008

Patricia Sweetland, first woman mayor of Adams, New York

2009

Stephanie Miner, first women elected mayor of Syracuse, New York

2013

Ashley Hennings, first woman elected mayor of Newport, New York, United States[99]

2013

Lovely Warren, first woman elected mayor, and first African-American woman mayor of Rochester, New York, United States[100]

2013

Trish Abato, first woman elected mayor of Suffern, New York, United States[101]

2013

Kathy Sheehan, first woman elected mayor of Albany, New York, United States[102]

North Carolina

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1922

Maude R. Satterthwaite, first woman mayor of Stonewall, North Carolina[103]

1975

Beth Finch, first woman elected mayor of Fayetteville, North Carolina[104]

1977

Isabella Cannon, first woman elected mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina[105]

1985

Ella Bengel, first woman elected mayor of New Bern, North Carolina[106]

1987

Sue Myack, first woman elected Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina

1995

Rosemary Waldorf, first woman elected Mayor of Chapel Hill, North Carolina[107]

1999

Jennifer Stultz, first woman elected mayor of Gastonia, North Carolina

2017

Marla Thompson first woman elected mayor of Long View, North Carolina, United States[108]

Ohio

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1921

Amy A. Kaukonen, first woman elected mayor in Fairport Harbor, Ohio[109][110][111]

1923

Mary McFadden, first woman mayor of Magnetic Springs, Ohio who was appointed by the city council at the age of 80.[112]

1954

Dorothy N. Dolbey, first woman elected mayor in Cincinnati, Ohio[113]

1961

Myrtle Reed, first woman mayor of Grand River, Ohio

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.

1984

Donna Owens, first woman elected Mayor of Toledo, Ohio[114]

2001

Rhine McLin, first woman elected mayor of Dayton, Ohio

2001

Jane Leaver, first woman elected mayor of Medina, Ohio[115]

2002

Jane L. Campbell, first woman elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio

2017

Carrie Schlade first woman elected mayor of Bryan, Ohio, United States[116]

Oklahoma

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1971

Patience Latting, first woman elected mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma[117]
Latting was also the first female mayor of any major U.S. city with more than 350,000 residents.[117]

1992

M. Susan Savage, first woman elected mayor Tulsa, Oklahoma

Oregon

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1895

Alice E. Burns, the first woman mayor in the state of Oregon following her victory in the 1895 municipal elections in Florence over newspaper publisher and former mayor B. F. Alley. Women were elected to all other town offices as well.[118][119]

1912

Clara C. Munson, first woman mayor of Warrenton, Oregon and first woman elected mayor following the passage of the equal suffrage law in Oregon.[120]
Some sources, including The Daily Astorian, erroneously call Munson the first woman elected mayor in Oregon, however, that distinction belongs to Alice E. Burns who was elected mayor of Florence, Oregon in 1895.[121]

1914

Clara Latorette Larson, first woman elected mayor of Troutdale, Oregon[122]

1917

Blanch Shelley, first woman elected mayor of Sandy, Oregon[123]
Laura Jane Starcher, first woman elected mayor of Umatilla, Oregon[124]

1920

Grace B. Lampshire, first woman elected mayor of Burns, Oregon and first woman elected mayor in Oregon by write-in vote[125]

1949

Dorothy McCullough Lee, first woman mayor of Portland, Oregon

1955

Mary Van Stevens, first woman elected mayor of Heppner, Oregon[126]
She resigned in 1956 after purchasing a business in The Dalles, Oregon.[127]

1983

Sue Miller, first woman elected mayor of Salem, Oregon[128]

1993

Ruth Bascom, first woman mayor of Eugene, Oregon[129]

Pennsylvania

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1977

Betty Marshall, first woman elected Mayor of York, Pennsylvania[130]

1989

Janice Stork, first woman elected Mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania[131]

1993

Anne Jones, first woman elected mayor of Pottstown, Pennsylvania[132]

2009

Donna McFadden-Connors, first woman appointed mayor of Pittston, Pennsylvania[133]
Linda Thompson, first women elected mayor of and first African-American mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

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2008

Jeanne-Marie Napolitano, first woman mayor of Newport, Rhode Island[134]

South Carolina

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1992

Cheryll Woods-Flowers, first woman elected mayor of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

2008

Elise Partin, first woman elected mayor of Cayce, South Carolina
Alys Lawson, first woman elected mayor of Conway, South Carolina[135]
Pam Lee, first woman elected mayor of Mullins, South Carolina[136]

Tennessee

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1940

Mary Ellen Presnell Brendle,first woman mayor of Englewood, Tennessee [137][138]

1961

May Ross McDowell, first woman elected mayor of Johnson City, Tennessee[139]

2011

Madeline Rogero, first woman elected mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

2015

Megan Barry, first woman elected mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, United States[140]

Texas

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1917

Ophelia “Birdie” Crosby Harwood, mayor of Marble Falls, Texas, first woman mayor in Texas, elected by an all-male vote three years before women were allowed to vote.[141]

1975

Lila Cockrell, first woman elected mayor of San Antonio, Texas

1976

Adlene Harrison, first woman mayor of Dallas, Texas

1977

Carole Keeton Strayhorn, first woman elected mayor of Austin, Texas

1982

Kathryn J. Whitmire, first woman elected mayor of Houston, Texas

1985

Ann Pomykal, first woman elected mayor of Lewisville, Texas[142]

1989

Suzie Azar, first woman elected mayor of El Paso, Texas

1999

Blanca Vela, first woman elected mayor of Brownsville, Texas[143]

2014

Celeste Sanchez, first woman elected mayor of San Benito, Texas, United States[144]

Utah

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1912

Mary Elizabeth Woolley, mayor of Kanab, Utah, first woman mayor in Utah, and part of the first all-woman city council elected in the United States.[citation needed]

1992

Deedee Corradini, first woman elected mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah

2009

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

2013

Maile Wilson, first woman elected mayor of Cedar City, Utah, United States[145]

2018

Michelle Kaufusi, first woman elected mayor of Provo, Utah[146]

Vermont

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1980

Janet Smith, first woman elected mayor of St. Albans, Vermont, less than a week after she was sworn-in Smith was shot an killed at her home.[147]

Virginia

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1962

Eleanor P. Sheppard, first woman elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia[148]

1963

Ann Hitch Kilgore, first woman mayor of Hampton, Virginia

1986

Jessie M. Rattley, first woman and African American elected by fellow Council members as mayor of the City of Newport News[149]

1988

Meyera E. Oberndorf, first woman elected mayor of Virginia Beach, Virginia

2008

Mimi Elrod, first woman elected mayor of Lexington, Virginia[150]
Linda Johnson, first woman elected mayor of Suffolk, Virginia

2018

Nikuyah Walker, first African-American female mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Washington

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1926

Bertha Knight Landes, first woman Mayor of Seattle, Washington and first woman mayor of a major American city[151]

1953

Amanda Benek Smith, first woman mayor of Olympia, Washington

1975

Betty Edmondson, first woman mayor of Yakima, Washington[152]

1977

Joyce Ebert, first woman to serve as mayor of Everett, Washington[153]

2012

Kelli Linville, first woman elected mayor of Bellingham, Washington

2017

Anne McEnerny-Ogle first woman elected mayor of Vancouver, Washington, United States[154]
Cassie Franklin, first woman elected Mayor of Everett, Washington

Wyoming

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1912

Susan Wissler, mayor of Dayton, Wyoming and first woman mayor in Wyoming[155]

1920

Grace Miller, first woman elected mayor of Jackson, Wyoming[156]

2008

Nancy Tia Brown, first woman elected mayor of Cody, Wyoming[157]

2014

Louise Carter-King, first woman elected mayor of Gilette, Wyoming, United States[158]

2016

Marian Orr, first woman elected mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States[159]

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