page_title: Nancy McFarlane
section_title: City council service
hierarchical_section_title: Nancy McFarlane / Career / City council service
caption_attribution_description: English: Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane being interviewed by ABC11 journalist Mark Armstrong
context_page_description: Nancy Pletcher McFarlane is an American pharmacist and politician. She served as the 61st mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. She was elected to lead the city in the 2011 election, and succeeded Charles Meeker, who had declined to run for re-election to another term. McFarlane is a political independent but ran with the endorsement of the local Democratic Party. She was re-elected for three further terms, in 2013, 2015, and 2017, but declined to run for re-election in 2019.
  Before her election as mayor, McFarlane was a pharmacist and small business owner, served on the Raleigh City Council. She was elected in 2007 and re-elected without opposition in 2009. She left her seat on the council when she was elected mayor.
context_section_description: McFarlane won the District A City Council seat in 2007, and ran without opposition in 2009. She served on the Budget and Economic Development Committee and was chair of the Comprehensive Planning Committee.
  McFarlane worked with the Coalition to Unchain Dogs which works to mitigate the negative consequences of keeping dogs chained and she initiated the tasking of the City Attorney to draw up the Dog Tethering Ordinance which was unanimously passed by the City Council on March 3, 2009 and took effect July 1 of that year.
caption: McFarlane being interviewed by an ABC 11 news television crew in 2012
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