# List of first women mayors (21st century)

The following is a list of the first woman to serve as mayor of their respective municipalities.

## 2000s
### 2000

       Lore Christopher, first woman elected mayor of Keizer, Oregon, United States
       Alison Grosse first woman elected mayor of the Shire of Maroochy, Queensland, Australia

### 2001

       Izalene Tiene, first woman elected mayor of Campinas, Brazil
       Yvonne Brown, first black woman elected mayor of Tchula, Mississippi, United States
          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
       Lauren Fortmiller, first woman elected mayor of Sag Harbor, New York, United States
          also the first lesbian mayor of Sag Harbor
       Rhine McLin, first woman elected mayor of Dayton, Ohio, United States
       Shirley Franklin, first woman and black woman elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, United States
       Jane Leaver, first woman elected mayor of Medina, Ohio, United States
       Ellen O. Moyer, first woman elected mayor of Annapolis, Maryland, United States
       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
       Sandra Strader, first woman elected mayor of Tupper Lake, New York, United States

### 2002

       Dora Bakoyannis, first woman elected mayor of Athens, Greece
       Annika Billström, first woman elected mayor of Stockholm, Sweden
       Jane L. Campbell, first woman elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, United States
       Brigitte Fouré, first woman elected mayor of Amiens, France
       Sekesai Makwavarara, first woman deputy mayor of Harare, Zimbabwe
       Nancy Merse, first woman mayor of Edgewater, New Jersey, United States
       Danica Simšič, first woman elected mayor of Ljubljana, Slovenia
       Hilde Zach, first woman elected mayor of Innsbruck, Austria
       Lou Ann Christensen, first woman elected mayor of Brigham City, Utah, United States
       Milada Halíková, first woman elected mayor of Havířov, Czech Republic

### 2003

       Catalina Cirer, first woman mayor of Palma de Mallorca, Spain
       Asma Chaabi, first female mayor of Essaouira, and the first woman elected mayor in Morocco
       Rosina Hoebes, first woman elected mayor of Swakopmund, Namibia
       Laine Jänes, first woman mayor of Tartu, Estonia
       Josefa Luzardo, first woman mayor of Las Palmas, Spain
       Valentina Matviyenko, first woman mayor of Saint Petersburg, Russia
       Aneesa Mirza, the first woman elected mayor of Ahmedabad, India
          also the first woman of Muslim faith elected mayor in India
       Manorama Dobriyal Sharma, first woman mayor of Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
       Carolyn Terteling-Payne, first woman Mayor of Boise, Idaho, United States
       Rose Garland Thornton, first woman mayor pro tem of Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan
       Lucy Turnbull, first woman Lord Mayor of Sydney, Australia
       Joan Vinton, first woman mayor of Shellharbour, New South Wales, Australia
          Vinton served as interim mayor and was defeated in an election in December 2003 by deputy mayor David Hamilton.
       Angelika Volquartz, first woman mayor of Kiel, Germany

### 2004

       Deborah Cantwell, first woman elected mayor of Lawrence, Indiana, United States
          also the first Democrat to be elected mayor in Lawrence
       Maja Gojković, first woman mayor of Novi Sad, Serbia
       Aminata Thiam, probably the first woman mayor of Dakkar, Senegal
       Oumou Sall Seck, first woman mayor of Goundam, Mali
       Dianna Freelon-Foster, the first woman and first African-American mayor of Grenada, Mississippi, United States

### 2005

       Kim Driscoll, first woman elected mayor of Salem, Massachusetts, United States
       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, Quebec, Canada
       Dianne Watts, first woman elected mayor of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
       Janet Mikhail, first woman mayor of Ramallah, Palestine
          also the first woman mayor of a West Bank town
       Violeta Menjívar, first woman mayor of San Salvador, El Salvador
       Mercy Williams, first woman mayor of Kochi, India
       Prof. R Bindhu, first woman mayor of Thrissur, India
       Sheriel F. Perkins, first woman and African American elected mayor of Greenwood, Mississippi, United States
       Theresa Murray, first woman mayor of Poplar, Montana, United States

### 2006

       Patricia Christensen, first woman elected mayor of Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States
       Eleni Mavrou, first woman elected mayor of Nicosia, Cyprus
       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, United States
       Margaret Hornady, first woman elected mayor of Grand Island, Nebraska, United States
       Aissa Kirabo Kakira, first woman elected mayor of Kigali, Rwanda
       Irena Ondrová, first woman elected mayor of Zlín, Czech Republic

### 2007

       Rita Ellis, first woman elected mayor of Delray Beach, Florida, United States
       Chen Wei, first woman elected mayor of Pingliang, China
       Donnalee Lozeau, first woman elected mayor of Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
       April Capone Almon, first woman elected mayor of East Haven, Connecticut, United States
       Matti Herrera Bower, first woman elected mayor of Miami Beach, Florida, United States
       Sheila Dixon, first black woman elected mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, United States
       Barbara Ewing, first female Democrat elected mayor of Tell City, Indiana, United States
       Susan M. Kay, first woman elected mayor of Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States
       Shawna M. Gurgis, first woman elected mayor of Bedford, Indiana
       Lisa Scaffidi, first woman elected mayor of Perth, Australia
       Katrina Shimbulu, first woman mayor of Oshakati, Namibia
       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, Philippines

### 2008

       Sylviana Murni, first woman appointed mayor of Central Jakarta, Indonesia
       Elise Partin, first woman elected mayor of Cayce, South Carolina, United States
       Alys Lawson, first woman elected mayor of Conway, South Carolina, United States
       Pam Lee, first woman elected mayor of Mullins, South Carolina, United States
       Mimi Elrod, first woman elected mayor of Lexington, Virginia, United States
       Patricia Sweetland, first woman mayor of Adams, New York, United States
       Jeanne-Marie Napolitano, first woman mayor of Newport, Rhode Island, United States
       Mary Rossing, first woman elected mayor of Northfield, Minnesota, United States
       Nancy Tia Brown, first woman elected mayor of Cody, Wyoming, United States
       Wilda Diaz, first woman elected mayor of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, United States
       Linda Johnson, first woman elected mayor of Suffolk, Virginia, United States
       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 Puebla, Mexico
       Sonia Castedo, first woman mayor of Alicante, Spain
       Azra Jafari, first woman appointed mayor of Nili and first woman mayor in Afghanistan
       Eva Habil, first woman elected mayor of Komboha and first woman mayor in Egypt

### 2009

       Cheri Barry, first woman elected mayor of Meridian, Mississippi, United States
       Maria Teresa Beccari, first woman elected mayor of City of San Marino
       Donna McFadden-Connors, first woman appointed mayor of Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States
       Yordanka Fandakova, first woman elected mayor of Sofia, Bulgaria
       Fumiko Hayashi, first woman elected mayor of Yokohama, Japan
       Melissa Johnson, first woman elected mayor of West Jordan, Utah, United States
       Jyoti Khandelwal, first woman mayor of Jaipur, India
       Mia Love, first woman mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, United States
          also first black woman mayor in the state of Utah
       Corine Mauch, first woman elected mayor of Zürich, Switzerland
       Stephanie Miner, first woman elected mayor of Syracuse, New York, United States
       Natasha Navas, first woman elected mayor of Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago
       Banda Karthika Reddy, first woman elected mayor of Hyderabad, India
       Linda Thompson, first woman elected mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
          also the first African American mayor of Harrisburg
       Kimiko Kubota, first woman mayor of Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

## 2010s

2010
       Debbie Amaroso, first woman elected mayor of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
       Patricia Ayala, first woman elected mayor of Artigas, Uruguay
       Shari Decter Hirst, first woman elected mayor of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
       Sara Duterte, first woman elected Mayor of Davao City, Philippines
       Kazumi Inamura, first woman mayor of Amagasaki, Japan
       Patahiyah Ismail, first woman municipal council president of Penang Island, Malaysia
       Katarína Macháčková, first woman mayor of Prievidza, Slovakia
       Selma Nelumbu, first woman mayor of Omaruru, Namibia
       Ana Olivera, first woman elected mayor of Montevideo, Uruguay
       Adriana Peña, first woman elected mayor of Lavalleja, Uruguay
       Tri Rismaharini, first woman elected mayor of Surabaya, Indonesia
       Elaine Trepper, first black woman mayor of Windhoek, Namibia
       Hanna Zdanowska, first woman elected mayor of Łódź, Poland
2011
       Ana Botella, first woman designated mayor of Madrid, Spain
       Charlotte Brower, first woman elected mayor of North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States
       Joyce Chepkoech Korir, first woman elected mayor of Bomet, Kenya
       Adelina Farici, first woman elected mayor of Burrel, Albania
       Karen Freeman-Wilson, first woman elected mayor of Gary, Indiana, United States
          also first African-American woman elected mayor in the State of Indiana
       Selina Hayat Ivy, first woman elected mayor of Narayanganj, Bangladesh
       Grace Mahosi, first woman elected mayor of Thulamela, Limpopo, South Africa
       Lilian Osundwa, first woman elected mayor of Mumias, Kenya
       Jean Quan, first woman elected mayor of Oakland, California, United States
          also the first Asian American mayor of Oakland
       Madeline Rogero, first woman elected mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
       Laura Roughton, first woman elected mayor of Jurupa Valley, California, United States
          also first mayor of Jurupa Valley, California
       Teresa Tomlinson, first woman elected mayor of Columbus, Georgia, United States
       Mercy Wanjiku Kimwe, first woman elected mayor of Muranga, Kenya
2012
       Margarita Arellanes Cervantes, first woman elected mayor of Monterrey, Mexico
       Vera Baboun, first woman elected mayor of Bethlehem, Palestine
       Joanna Gash, first woman elected mayor of Shoalhaven, Australia
       Jodie Harrison, first woman elected mayor of Lake Macquarie, Australia
       Halyna Hereha, first woman appointed mayor of Kyiv, Ukraine
       Dorothy Hubbard, first woman elected mayor of Albany, Georgia, United States
       Naomi Koshi, first woman elected mayor of Ōtsu, Japan
       Kelli Linville, first woman elected mayor of Bellingham, Washington, United States
       Alice Patino, first woman elected mayor of Santa Maria, California, United States
       Frances Ann Romero, first woman elected mayor of Guadalupe, California, United States
2013
       Trish Abato, first woman elected mayor of Suffern, New York, United States
       Alinah Ahmad, first woman mayor of Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
       Priscilla Arhin, probably the first woman elected mayor of Cape Coast, Ghana
       Teuta Arifi, first woman elected mayor of Tetovo, Macedonia
       Mary Ann Arnold, first woman elected mayor of Marked Tree, Arkansas, United States
       Karen Cadieux, first woman mayor of Easthampton, Massachusetts
       Usha Chaudhary, first woman mayor of Kashipur, Uttarakhand, India
       Dorine Chukowry, first woman elected mayor of Port Louis, Mauritius
       Renu Dabla, first woman elected mayor of Rohtak, India
       Agnes Delgado-Tolentino, first woman elected mayor of Tagaytay, Philippines
       Anita Dugatto, first woman elected mayor of Derby, Connecticut, United States
       Belen Fernandez, first woman elected mayor of Dagupan, Philippines
       Toni Harp, first woman elected mayor, and first female African-American mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, United States
       Ashley Hennings, first woman elected mayor of Newport, New York, United States
       Deb Hinchey, first woman elected mayor of Norwich, Connecticut, United States
       Stacey Jordan, first woman elected mayor of Moorestown, New Jersey, United States
       Soni Koli, first woman mayor of Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, India
       Cecilia Oba Tito, first woman elected mayor of Yei, South Sudan and also the first female mayor in South Sudan
       Olga Rasamimanana, first woman elected mayor of Antananarivo, Madagascar
       Kathy Sheehan, first woman elected mayor of Albany, New York, United States
       Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, first woman elected mayor of Malmö, Sweden
       Jean Stothert, first woman elected mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, United States
       Stephanie Uy-Tan, first woman elected mayor of Catbalogan, Philippines
       Lovely Warren, first woman elected mayor, and first African-American woman mayor of Rochester, New York, United States
       Del Rae Williams, first woman elected mayor of Moorhead, Minnesota, United States
       Diana Willits, first woman elected mayor of Windsor Heights, Iowa, United States
       Maile Wilson, first woman elected mayor of Cedar City, Utah, United States
2014
       Katari Anuradha, first woman mayor of Chittoor, India
       Louise Carter-King, first woman elected mayor of Gillette, Wyoming, United States
       Lourdes "Baby" S. Cataquiz, first woman elected mayor of San Pedro, Laguna, Philippines
       Maty Mint Hamady, first woman elected mayor of Nouakchott, Mauritania
       Anne Hidalgo, first woman elected Mayor of Paris, France
       Lisa Helps, first woman elected mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
       Gültan Kışanak, first woman elected mayor of Diyarbakır, Turkey
       Adriana Krnáčová, first woman elected mayor of Prague, Czech Republic
       Mimoza Kusari-Lila, first woman elected mayor of Gjakova, Kosovo
       Mayra Peña Lindsay, first woman mayor of Key Biscayne, Florida, United States
       Sylvia Muzila, first woman elected mayor of Francistown, Botswana
       Shaik Noorjahan, first woman elected mayor of Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India
       Joana Ntaja, first woman elected mayor of Zomba, Malawi
       Tana Raymond, first woman elected mayor of Garfield, New Jersey, United States
       Johanna Rolland, first woman elected mayor of Nantes, France
       Celeste Sanchez, first woman elected mayor of San Benito, Texas, United States
       Liesbeth Spies, first woman mayor of Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands (since 15 December 2014)
       Marian Tudela, first woman mayor of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
       Andrea Turčanová, first woman elected mayor of Prešov, Slovakia
2015
       Zekra Alwach, first woman mayor of Baghdad, Iraq
       Gail Ash, first woman elected mayor of Clermont, Florida, United States
       Megan Barry, first woman elected mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, United States
       Manuela Carmena, first woman elected mayor of Madrid, Spain
       Ada Colau, first woman elected mayor of Barcelona, Spain
       Christine Dansereau, first woman elected mayor of Roselle, New Jersey, United States
       Laura Hill, first woman elected mayor of Southlake, Texas, United States
       Patahiyah Ismail, first woman mayor of Penang Island, Malaysia
       Věra Nechybová, first woman mayor of Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
       Henriette Reker, first woman elected mayor of Cologne, Germany
       Pravina Thakur, first woman elected mayor of Vasai-Virar, India
       Karen Weaver, PhD, first woman elected mayor of Flint, Michigan, United States
2016
       Rosalynn Bliss, first woman elected as mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
       Gabriela Firea, first woman elected mayor of Bucharest, Romania
       Milissa Holland, first woman elected mayor of Palm Coast, Florida, United States
       Yuriko Koike, first woman elected governor of Tokyo, Japan
       Maimunah Mohd Sharif, first woman municipal council president of Seberang Perai, Malaysia
       Lily Mei, first woman elected mayor of Fremont, California, United States
       Lani Mercado, first woman elected Mayor of Bacoor, Philippines
       Marian Orr, first woman elected mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States
       Virginia Raggi, first woman elected mayor of Rome, Italy
       Michelle Roman, first woman elected as Mayor of Kingsburg, California, United States

### 2017

       Loretta Baker, first woman elected mayor of Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
       Sanyukta Bhatia, first woman elected mayor of Lucknow, India
       Sharon Weston Broome first woman elected as Mayor-President of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
       Tasha Cerda, first woman to be elected Mayor of Gardena, California, United States
          Also the first person of either African American and Native American descent to be elected mayor of Gardena and the first person of Native American descent to be elected mayor in the state of California.
       Tjhai Chui Mie, first woman elected mayor of Singkawang, Indonesia
       Joyce Craig, first woman elected mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
       Cassie Franklin, first woman elected Mayor of Everett, Washington, United States
       Ruthanne Fuller, first woman elected mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, United States
       Lyda Krewson, first woman elected mayor of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
       Diane Langman, first woman elected mayor of Warfield, British Columbia, Canada
       Anne McEnerny-Ogle, first woman elected mayor of Vancouver, Washington, United States
       Valérie Plante, first woman elected mayor of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
       Yvonne M. Spicer, first woman elected mayor of Framingham, Massachusetts, United States
       Lynn Spruill, first woman elected mayor of Starkville, Mississippi, United States
       Carol Westfall, first woman elected mayor of Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States

### 2018

       Latoya Cantrell, first woman elected mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
       Femke Halsema, first woman elected mayor of Amsterdam, Netherlands
       Einat Kalisch-Rotem, first woman elected mayor of Haifa, Israel see: 2018 Haifa mayoral election
       Anita Mamgain, first woman mayor of Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
       Hemlata Negi, first woman mayor of Kotdwar, Uttarakhand, India
       Lisa Pasin, first woman elected mayor of Trail, British Columbia, Canada
       Anita Sharma, first woman mayor of Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India
       Claudia Sheinbaum, first woman elected mayor of Mexico City, Mexico (since 5 December 2018)
       Souad Abderrahim, first woman mayor of Tunis, Tunisia in its first local election

### 2019

       Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, first woman mayor of Gdańsk, Poland
       Juliana Kaduya, first woman mayor of Lilongwe, Malawi
       Claudia López, first woman elected mayor of Bogotá, Colombia
       Lova Rajaona, first woman mayor of Antanifotsy, Madagascar
       Safiya Hassan Sheikh Ali Jimale, Mayor of Beledweyne, first woman mayor in Somalia

## 2020s
### 2020

       Ella Jones, first woman and elected mayor of Ferguson, Missouri, United States
          also the first African American woman elected mayor
       Michèle Rubirola, first woman mayor of Marseille, France
       Saleema McCree Thomas, first woman elected mayor of Point Fortin, Trinidad and Tobago (since 26 August 2020).

### 2021

       Nyachek De-tuel, first woman mayor of Bentiu, South Sudan
       Kim Janey, acting mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, United States
          also first African American mayor of Boston
       Michelle Wu, first woman elected mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, United States
          also first Asian American mayor of Boston

### 2022

       Honey Lacuna, first woman mayor of Manila, Philippines
       Maila Ting-Que, first woman mayor of Tuguegarao, Philippines
       Dagmar Škodová Parmová, first woman mayor of České Budějovice, Czech Republic
       Pavlína Springerová, first woman mayor of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

### 2023

       Flora Gabriel Modi, first woman mayor of Juba, South Sudan

### 2024

       Cherelle Parker, first woman mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
          also 100th mayor of Philadelphia overall

### 2025

       Arti Bhandari, first woman mayor of Sringar, Uttarakhand, India
       Kalpana Devlal, first woman mayor of Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, India