List of mayors of Beverly Hills, California
Mayors of Beverly Hills

List of mayors of Beverly Hills, California

Section Title: Mayors of Beverly Hills
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Name	Image	Term(s)	Notes	Ref(s)

Pierce E. Benedict	Founder and first mayor of Beverly Hills.

Silsby M. Spalding	1922–28	Wealthy oil man, stock broker, rancher

Will Rogers	Will Rogers - 1940s - color.JPG	1928	Honorary position appointed by real-life Beverly Hills mayor Silsby M. Spalding

Paul E. Schwab	1929–33	City Attorney

Edward E. Spence	1933–41	Civil engineer

James L. Kennedy	1941–42	Retired real estate broker, appointed upon the sudden death of Mayor Spence

Arthur L. Erb	1942–45	First law office in Beverly Hills, first president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association

E. P. Dentzel	1945–48	Edward Paul Dentzel, building contractor and subdivision developer. Built amusement parks at Venice Beach, Santa Monica and Ocean Park

Otto A. Gerth	1948–50

F. Britton McConnell	1950–51	State insurance commissioner, military veteran of World War I

C. Dean Olson	1951–52	Chairman of the Beverly Hills Planning Commission; founding partner of Sherman Oaks-based Olson Farms Inc.

David Tannenbaum	1952–53 1956–57	Attorney, philanthropist

Floyd E. Fischer	1953–54 1957–58

Harold L. George	-	1954–55 1959–60	Army Air Corps lieutenant general; during his administration, Roxbury Park was renamed Roxbury Memorial Park to honor all who served in the United States military.

George W. Davis	1955–56 1958–59

Hugh W. Darling	1960–61	Founding law partner of Guthrie & Darling

Jack Freeman	1961–62	Helped create the city's Planning Commission

Leroy H. Watson	-	1962–63	Retired US Army major general who commanded 3rd Armored Division and 79th Infantry Division in World War II

Eugene W. Gunther	1963–64	Owner of Gunther's Drug Store

Leonard Horwin	1964–65	Helped the city acquire Greystone Mansion in 1965

Frank Clapp	1965–66 1969–70

Jacob M. Stuchen	1966–67 1970–71

A. Fredric Leopold	1967–68 1971–72	Entertainment lawyer

George Slaff	1968–69 1975–76	Attorney, former president of the Southern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union

Richard A. Stone	1972–73 1977–78

Phyllis Seaton	1973–74	First woman elected to the Beverly Hills City Council; first woman stage manager on Broadway

Charles Aronberg	1974–75 1979–80

Donna Ellman-Garber	1976–77 1981–82

Joseph N. Tilem	1978–79

Edward I. Brown	1980–81 1985–86	Investments management

Benjamin H. Stansbury, Jr.	1982–83 1987–88	Los Angeles Olympic Citizens Advisory Commission

Benjamin Norton	1983–84	President of Norton Brothers and Morris

Annabelle Heiferman	1984–85	Founding board member of Beverly Hills Meals on Wheels; Membership Chairperson of the League of Women Voters

Charlotte Spadaro	1986–87

Robert K. Tanenbaum	1988–89 1992–93	Former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, true crime author

Maxwell H. Salter	1989–90 1990–91 1993–94

Allan Alexander	1990–91 1995–96	Real estate attorney

Vicki Reynolds	1991–92 1994–95 2000–01

Thomas S. Levyn	1996–97 1999–2000 2003–04

MeraLee Goldman	1997–98 2002–03

Les Bronte	1998–99

Mark Egerman	2001–02 2004–05

Linda J. Briskman	2005–06	Chairman of the Westside Cities Council of Governments

Stephen P. Webb	2006–07

Jimmy Delshad	2007–08 2010–11	First Iranian-American to hold public office in Beverly Hills

Barry Brucker	2007–08 2010–11

Nancy Krasne	2009–10

William W. Brien	2012–13

Julian Gold	2014–15	Co-Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at Cedars-Sinai

Lili Bosse	-	2014–15 2017–18	Instituted weekly "Walk with the Mayor" to promote physical fitness

John A. Mirisch	2013–14 2016–17 2019–20	Instituted the Sunshine Task Force for transparency in city government

Sentence(s)

Leopold served as mayor of Beverly Hills from 1967-1968 and 1971-1972.

final_sentence: Leopold served as mayor of Beverly Hills from 1967-1968 and 1971-1972.