After Kansas granted women the right to vote in municipal elections in February 1887, Susanna Madora Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas on April 4, 1887, and became the first female mayor in the United States. Salter had been nominated without her knowledge or consent, as a stunt intended to discourage women from participation in the political process. In 1862, Nancy Smith won the mayoral election of Oskaloosa, Iowa, after being nominated as a "joke", but she declined to hold office.

Following the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920, Bertha Knight Landes became the first woman mayor of a city with more than 150,000 residents, after she was elected mayor of Seattle, Washington in 1926.

Alabama 1980 Sue L. Glidewell, first woman elected mayor of Rainbow City, Alabama. Served six consecutive terms for 24 years until retirement in 2004.

1984 Mary Kate Stovall, first female and first African-American mayor of Hurtsboro, Alabama; also first African-American woman mayor in the state of Alabama

1996 Harri Anne Smith, first woman mayor of Slocomb, Alabama

1997 Loretta Spencer, first woman mayor of Huntsville, Alabama

2000 Lucenia Williams Dunn, first woman mayor of Tuskegee, Alabama

2004 Loxcil Tuck, first woman elected mayor of Tarrant, Alabama

2009 Carole Smitherman, first woman mayor of Birmingham, Alabama

2012 Louvenia Diane Lumpkin, first female and first African-American mayor of Orrville, Alabama.

2016 Karin Wilson, first woman mayor of Fairhope, Alabama

2021 Linda Peebles, first woman elected mayor of Courtland, Alabama

Alaska 1946 Doris Barnes, first woman mayor of Wrangell, Alaska 1956 Myrth Sarvela, first woman elected mayor of Sitka, Alaska 1965 Sylvia Ringstad, first woman elected mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska 1966 Bernice Stokke, first woman mayor of Petersburg, Alaska 1975 Virginia Kline, first woman elected mayor of Juneau, Alaska 1976 Elizabeth Hjellen, first woman mayor of Wasilla, Alaska 2011 Charlotte Brower, first woman elected mayor of North Slope Borough, Alaska 2020 Austin Quinn-Davidson, first female mayor of Anchorage, Alaska

Arizona 1927 Fanne Gaar, first woman elected mayor in Arizona, mayor of Casa Grande, Arizona 1973 Ethel Berger, first woman mayor in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Berger was appointed, not elected; at that time mayors were appointed from the city council. 1976 Margaret Hance, first woman elected Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona 1988 Peggy Rubach, first woman elected mayor of Mesa, Arizona 1990 Elizabeth Ames, first woman elected mayor of Douglas, Arizona

1995 Joan Shafer, first woman elected mayor of Surprise, Arizona 2019 Regina Romero, first woman elected mayor of Tucson, Arizona 2023 Nancy Smith, first woman elected mayor of Maricopa, Arizona

Arkansas 1925 Maude Duncan, first woman elected mayor of Winslow, Arkansas 1966 Katherine Green, first woman to serve as mayor of Eureka Springs, Arkansas 1975 Joyce Ferguson, first woman to serve as mayor of West Memphis, Arkansas 1986 Marilyn Johnson, first woman to serve as mayor of Fayetteville, Arkansas 1987 Lottie Shackelford, first woman and first African-American woman appointed mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas (Pulaski County)

California 1915 Estelle Lawton Lindsey, first woman to execute the duties of Mayor of Los Angeles, California it occurred when Los Angeles Mayor Henry H. Rose was absent from his post in September 1915 and directed Lindsey, a member of the city council, to fill-in as acting mayor. 1916 Ellen French Aldrich, first woman elected mayor of Sawtelle, Los Angeles 1924 Jesse Elwyn Nelson, first woman elected mayor of Signal Hill, California Edwina Benner, first woman elected mayor of Sunnyvale, California 1926 Mattle Chandler, first woman mayor of Richmond, California 1928 May B. Hopkins, first woman mayor of Redondo Beach, California 1929 Emily Jones, first woman elected mayor of Eureka, California 1931 Julia Platt, first woman elected mayor of Pacific Grove, California 1941 Helen Lawrence, first female mayor of San Leandro, California 1942 Jessie Reed, first female mayor of Seal Beach, California 1947 Carrie L. Hoyt, first female mayor of Berkeley, California 1948 Belle Cooledge, first female mayor of Sacramento, California 1952 Miriam Cummings (mayor), first woman elected mayor of Mill Valley, California 1953 Mabel Richey, first woman mayor of Lodi, California 1963 Teena Clifton, first woman mayor of Rolling Hills, California Florence E. Douglas, first woman elected mayor of Vallejo, California 1968 Rena Parker, first woman mayor of Corona, California 1971 Lorette Wood, first woman mayor of Santa Cruz, California

1973 Doris A. Davis, first woman and first African American woman elected mayor in the City of Compton.

1974 Janet Gray Hayes, first woman elected Mayor of San Jose, California 1976 Floretta K. Lauber, first woman mayor of Arcadia, California. Phyllis Sweeney, first woman elected mayor of Laguna Beach, California 1977 Eleanor Crouch, first woman elected mayor of Santa Paula, California 1978 Frances Prince, first woman to become mayor of Thousand Oaks, California also served 1983 to 1984 Dianne Feinstein, first woman mayor of San Francisco Mary Patricia Ostrye, first woman mayor and first elected mayor of Monrovia, California 1979 Clo Hoover, first woman elected mayor of Santa Monica, California 1980 Eunice Sato, first woman elected mayor of Long Beach, California Josephine Heckman, first woman elected mayor of Pasadena, California 1981 Mary K. Shell, first woman elected mayor of Bakersfield, California 1982 Loretta Thompson-Glickman, first African-American woman mayor of Pasadena, California also first African-American woman mayor of a city over 100,000 people 1982 Mary Lou Howard, first woman mayor of Burbank, California. 1983 Anne B. Diament, elected first woman mayor of Alameda, Californiahttps://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/v/1/city-manager/proclamations/womens-history-month-2020.pdf City Proclamation: "Women have held elected offices of Mayor and Councilmember since Alameda's first woman Mayor, Anne B. Diament, was elected in 1983"

Jana Wilson, first woman mayor of Oroville, California

1986 Maureen O'Connor, first woman elected mayor of San Diego, California

1989 Evelyn Wells, first woman to become Mayor of Lynwood, California.

1990 Teresa R. Frizzel, first woman elected mayor of Riverside, California Alice Jempsa, first woman elected mayor of Los Alamitos, California 1997 Jessica Maes, first woman elected mayor of Huntington Park, California 2009 Susan Gorin, first woman elected mayor of Santa Rosa, California 2010 Acquanetta Warren, first female mayor of Fontana, California 2011 Laura Roughton, first woman elected mayor of Jurupa Valley, California also first mayor of Jurupa Valley, California Jean Quan, first woman elected mayor of Oakland, California also the first Asian-American mayor of Oakland

2012

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

2016 Lily Mei, first woman elected mayor of Fremont, California Michelle Roman, first woman elected Mayor of Kingsburg, California

2017 Mary Ann Carbone first woman of Native American Chumash descent to be appointed by peers as Mayor of Sand City, California

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

2018 Alison Kerr, first woman elected Mayor of Del Rey Oaks, California

2020 Christy Holstege first woman elected Mayor of Palm Springs, California 2022 Karen Bass, first woman elected mayor of Los Angeles

Ashleigh Aitken first woman elected mayor of Anaheim Valerie Amezcua first woman elected mayor of Santa Ana, California

Colorado 1916 C. I. Driver, first woman to serve as mayor of Lone Rock, Colorado was appointed by the city council 1929 Elizabeth Lower, first woman to be elected mayor of Grover, Colorado 1965 Norma O. Walker, first woman mayor of Aurora, Colorado 1969 Eve Homeyer, first woman elected mayor of Aspen, Colorado 1995 Mary Lou Makepeace, first woman mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado

Connecticut 1967 Ann Uccello, also known as Antonina Uccello, first woman mayor of Hartford, Connecticut 1987 Carrie Saxon Perry, first African-American woman elected mayor of Hartford, Connecticut 1989 Mary C. Moran, first female mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut 1993 Linda Blogoslawski, first woman elected mayor of New Britain, Connecticut 2007 April Capone Almon, first woman elected mayor of East Haven, Connecticut 2013 Deb Hinchey, first woman elected mayor of Norwich, Connecticut Toni Harp, first woman elected mayor, and first female African-American mayor of New Haven, Connecticut Anita Dugatto, first woman elected mayor of Derby, Connecticut 2017 Nancy Rossi, first woman elected mayor of West Haven, Connecticut 2021

Carolin Simmons, first woman elected mayor of Stamford, Connecticut.

Delaware 1947 Margaret Hastings, first woman mayor of Blades, Delaware 1966 Norma Handloff, first woman mayor of Newark, Delaware and of a Delaware city 2023 Valarie Leary, first woman mayor of New Castle, Delaware

Florida 1917

Marian Newhall Horwitz, first woman who served as mayor of Moore Haven, Florida also first woman mayor in Florida 1921 Ellen M. Anderson, first woman mayor of Lantana, Florida 1922 Dr. Josie Rogers, first woman mayor of Daytona, Florida 1928 Lena Culver Hawkins, first woman mayor of Brooksville, Florida 1951 Marie Cross, first woman mayor of Jupiter, Florida 1961 Violet Kusbel Cimbora, first woman elected mayor in Florida. Mayor of Masaryktown, Florida 1973 Virginia S. Young, first woman elected mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida 1976 Dorothy Wilken, first woman elected mayor of Boca Raton, Florida 1977 Corrine Freeman, first woman mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida 1978 Helen Wilkes, first woman to become mayor of West Palm Beach, Florida

1982 Helen L. Miller, first female African-American mayor in the state of Florida and first female mayor of Opa-locka, Florida

1983 Kathleen Kelly (politician), first woman mayor of Clearwater, Florida Carol Zimmer Bellamy, first woman mayor of Tallahassee, Florida

1985 Sadye Gibbs Martin, first African American to be elected mayor of Plant City, Florida, which also made her the first female African-American elected mayor of a major city in Florida. She served on the City Commission for 15 years

1987 Sandra Warshaw Freedman, first woman elected mayor of Tampa, Florida 1992 Glenda Hood, first woman elected mayor of Orlando, Florida 1994 Edna Griffith, first woman mayor of Orange Park, Florida. Also, first woman elected and reelected to the Town Council

2006 Patricia Christensen, first woman elected mayor of Port St. Lucie, Florida 2007 Rita Ellis, first woman elected mayor of Delray Beach, Florida

Matti Herrera Bower, first woman elected mayor of Miami Beach, Florida 2013 Marni Sawicki, first woman mayor of Cape Coral, Florida. 2014 Mayra Peña Lindsay, first woman mayor of Key Biscayne, Florida 2015 Gail Ash, first woman elected mayor of Clermont, Florida 2016 Milissa Holland, first woman elected mayor of Palm Coast, Florida 2017 Daisy Raisler, first woman elected mayor of Hispanic descent of Lake Helen, Florida 2023 Donna Deegan, First woman elected mayor of Jacksonville, Florida

Georgia 1921 Alice Harrell Strickland, first woman elected mayor in the U.S. state of Georgia, in Duluth, Georgia

1934 Mrs. Adele (wife of Solomon S.) Youmans,"Mrs. Adele R. Youmans," Macon, Georgia News, September 8, 1969, p. 14 first woman mayor of Oak Park, Georgia

1978 Carrie Kent, first African-American woman mayor of Walthourville, Georgia

1991 Susan Weiner, first woman elected Mayor of Savannah, Georgia

1993 Patsy Jo Hilliard, first African American and first woman mayor of East Point, Georgia

2001 Shirley Franklin, first woman and black woman elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

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