British Mayor 

• Cleo Lake  –  [The first ever black female Lord Mayor]

French Mayor

• Hélène Geoffroy – [Mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin]

London Deputy Mayor 

• Debbie Weekes-Bernard – [The first black female deputy mayor of London]

Italian Mayor

• Antonella Bundu – [the first black woman to run for mayor in Florence]
• Sandy Cane – Italy’s First Black Mayor

Netherlands Mayor

• Joyce Sylvester – [2009 Acting Mayor of the town of Anna Paulowna]

US Mayors

• Barbara Blain-Bellamy – [Mayor of Conway 2016 &  re-election, 2020]
• Terry Bellamy – [Mayor of Asheville, North Carolina 2005 – 2013]
• Sharon Sayles Belton – [45th Mayor of Minneapolis 1994 – 2001]
• Unita Blackwell – [Mayor of Mayersville, Mississippi]
• Muriel Bowser – [7th Mayor of the District of Columbia ]
• London Breed – [45th Mayor of San Francisco]
• Aja Brown – [18th Mayor of Compton, California: Assumed office July 2, 2013]
• Yvonne Brown – [Mayor of Tchula, Mississippi, 2001–2009]
• LaToya Cantrell – [62nd Mayor of New Orleans]
• Mary Parham Copelan – [the first female Mayor ever in Milledgeville, Ga]
• Ellen Walker Craig – [1971, elected Mayor of Urbancrest, Ohio, the first African American woman to be elected mayor by popular vote, and became the first African-American woman to be elected mayor of a municipality in the United States]
• Brenda Davis – [first African-American Mayor of Stamps, Ark]
• Michele Delisfort – [Union Township New Jersey 2020 the first Black female and first Haitian-American mayor of the great Township of Union.]
• Sheila Dixon – [48th Mayor of Baltimore]
• Yolanda Ford – [11^th mayor of Missouri City]
• Shirley Franklin – [58th mayor of Atlanta, 2002– 2010, the first woman to hold the post and the first black woman to be elected mayor of a major Southern city] 
• Karen Freeman-Wilson – [20th Mayor of Gary, 2012 – 2019, first black female mayor]
• Jo Ann Bennett Grimsley – [Mayor of Midland City 2016]
• Toni Harp – [50th Mayor of New Haven]
• Paula Hicks-Hudson – [Mayor of Toledo, OH, 2015 – 2018]

US Mayors Cont.

• Edna Jackson – [Mayor of Savannah, 2012 first African American woman]
• Mae Jackson – [first African American female Mayor of Waco, Texas, 2004]
• Victoria Jackson-Stanley – [The first African-American and the first Mayoress of Cambridge, Maryland]
• Yvonne Johnson – [ the first African-American to serve as Mayor of Greensboro, North Carolina,  2007 – 2009]
• Keisha Lance Bottoms – [60th Mayor of Atlanta]
• Brenda L. Lawrence – [Mayor of Southfield, 2001–2015]
• Lori Lightfoot – [56th Mayor of Chicago]
• Viola Lyles – [59th Mayor of Charlotte]
• Mia Love (Ludmya Bourdeau) – [Mayor of Saratoga Springs]
• Rhine McLin – [54th Mayor of Dayton, 2002 – 2010]
• Mary Moore – [Mayor of Pearsall, 2015]
• Monique Owens – [first black person elected Mayor of The City Eastpointe, 2019]
• Lizette Parker – [the first black woman to serve as Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey, 2014 – 2016]
• Sheriel F. Perkins – [Mayor of Greenwood, MS, 2006-2009]
• Carrie Saxon Perry – [63rd Mayor of Hartford, 1987 – 1993 She was the first African American woman elected mayor of a major Northeast city.]
• Sharon Pratt – [3rd Mayor of the District of Columbia]
• Catherine Pugh – [50th Mayor of Baltimore]
• Jessie M. Rattley – [the first woman and first African-American Mayor of Newport News, Virginia from 1986 - 1990]
• Dana Redd – [Mayor of Camden, 2010 – 2018]
• Lottie Shackelford – [Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas, 1987 – 1988]
• Denise Simmons – [Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2016 – 2018]
• Yvonne Spicer – [1st Mayor of Framingham]
• Marilyn Strickland – [Mayor of Tacoma, Washington, 2010 – 2018]
• Ivy Taylor – [Mayor of San Antonio]
• Ollie S. Tyler – [Mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana,  2014 – 2018]
• Heather Toney – [the first African-American, first female and youngest mayor of Greenville, MS, from 2004-2012]
• Nikuyah Walker – [the first black female Mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, Assumed office January 4, 2018]
• Acquanetta Warren – [City of Fontana’s first female and African American Mayor in December 2010 and re-elected in 2018]
• Lovely Warren – [69th Mayor of Rochester, Assumed office 2014]
• Karen Weaver – [93rd Mayor of Flint from  2015 – 2019 the first female mayor of the city]
• Sharon Weston Broome – [the first female Mayor-President of the City of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish, Assumed office 2017]

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