Kay Barnes

**Kay Waldo Barnes** (an haife ta a ranar 30 ga Maris, 1938) 'yar siyasa ce 'yar Amurka wadda ta yi aiki a matsayin Magajin Garin Kansas City, Missouri daga 1999 zuwa 2007. Ita ce mace ta farko da aka zaɓa a wannan mukami kuma an zaɓe ta a 1999 aka sake zaɓe ta a 2003 .

Ta kasance 'yar takarar jam'iyyar Democrat a Missouri's 6th congressional district a Majalisar Wakilai ta Amurka a shekarar 2008, amma ta sha kaye a hannun Sam Graves, dan majalisar Republican mai ci a zaben da aka yi a watan Nuwamba.

A shekarar 2025, bayan an dawo da Shugaban Gundumar Jackson Frank White, Shugaban Majalisar Dokoki ta Gundumar Jackson, DaRon McGee, ya naɗa Barnes a matsayin Mukaddashin Shugaban Gundumar, wanda zai fara aiki daga ranar 8 ga Oktoba, 2025,  kuma ya yi aiki har sai da aka zaɓi Shugaban Gundumar na wucin gadi don ya yi aiki da sauran wa'adin White a ranar 16 ga Oktoba. 

## Tarihin Rayuwa
An haife ta Beverly Kay Cronkite a St. Joseph, Missouri, kuma 'yar Frederick Pierce "Fritz" Cronkite Jr. (1911-1962) da Helen F. [Morford] Cronkite St. John (1912-2016). Mahaifinta ƙanin Walter L. Cronkite ne, wanda hakan ya sa ta zama ' yar'uwar shahararren ɗan jarida Walter Cronkite . 

Ta sami digirin farko a fannin ilimin sakandare daga Jami'ar Kansas, inda ta kasance memba a makarantar sorority ta Kappa Kappa Gamma, digiri na biyu a fannin ilimin sakandare, da kuma digiri na biyu a fannin Gudanar da Jama'a daga Jami'ar Missouri–Kansas City.  Ta kasance shugabar *Kay Waldo, Inc.*, wani kamfanin bunkasa albarkatun ɗan adam, har zuwa lokacin da ta yi ritaya.

## Sana'a
A shekarar 1974, ta kasance ɗaya daga cikin mata biyu na farko a Majalisar Dokokin Gundumar Jackson. An zaɓe ta a majalisar birnin Kansas a shekarar 1979. 

Barnes ita ce magajin garin Kansas City mace ta farko.  Magajin Gari Barnes ta sami yabo sosai saboda aikinta na inganta birnin Kansas da kuma aikin fara farfaɗo da tsakiyar birnin. Ana kuma yaba mata da filin wasan Sprint Center da ke Kansas City wanda aka buɗe a ranar 10 ga Oktoba, 2007. An fara zaɓenta a matsayin magajin gari a ranar haihuwarta a 1999, kuma an sake zaɓenta a karo na biyu a 2003. An maye gurbinta da magajin garin Kansas City a ranar 1 ga Mayu, 2007, lokacin da Mark Funkhouser ya hau mulki.

A bukukuwan 'yan Democrat na Missouri, tun daga watan Afrilu, 2007, Magajin Garin Barnes ya bayyana karara cewa tana da ra'ayin tsayawa takarar Majalisa a shekarar 2008, kuma a ranar 14 ga Mayu, 2007, ta sanar da takararta a hukumance. Ta yi takarar kujerar 'yar majalisa ta 6 a Missouri, wacce Sam Graves, dan Republican mai wa'adi hudu, ke rike da ita. Ta shafe mafi yawan rayuwarta a gundumar; tana zaune a yankin Kansas City na 6, kuma ta girma a St. Joseph, birni mafi girma gaba daya a yankin 6.

A ranar 5 ga Agusta, 2008, Barnes ya yi nasara a kan Ali Allon Sherkat a zaɓen fidda gwani na jam'iyyar Democrat da kashi 84.5% na ƙuri'un.  Duk da cewa da farko an yi tunanin cewa takarar za ta kasance mai gasa, an kayar da Barnes sosai, inda ya sami kashi 37% kawai na ƙuri'un. Har ma ta rasa rabon gundumar na Kansas City.

Ba da daɗewa ba bayan kammala wa'adinta na biyu a matsayin magajin garin Kansas City, Barnes ta shiga Jami'ar Park a matsayin darektan Cibiyar Jagoranci a watan Mayu na 2007. Daga 2008 har zuwa ritayarta a ranar 31 ga Yuli, 2024, Barnes ta yi aiki a Jami'ar a matsayin babbar darakta don shiga jami'a, tana wakiltar Park a cikin al'ummar Greater Kansas City kuma a matsayin mai hulɗa da ma'aikata ga Majalisar Ba da Shawara kan Jama'a ta Park, ƙungiyar shugabannin kasuwanci, jama'a da ƙungiyoyin agaji na Kansas City.

Barnes memba ne na Kwalejin Gudanarwa ta Ƙasa .

## Rayuwa ta sirri
A ranar 6 ga Fabrairu, 1960 a St. Joseph, ta auri Douglas Byers Waldo Jr. (1937-2021), ɗan uwan babban dangin Waldo na Arewacin Amurka, zuriyar John Alden, kuma ɗan uwan shugabannin Amurka John Adams da John Quincy Adams . Sun haifi 'ya'ya biyu: Frederick Douglas "Fritz" Waldo da Kelly Kay Waldo. Sun sake aure wani lokaci kafin 1973, lokacin da Douglas ya sake yin aure.

Ta auri Frank Merritt Barnes (1925-2000) a ranar 6 ga Disamba, 1988 a birnin Kansas. Ya rasu bayan shekaru 11 da aure.

Ta sake yin aure a karo na uku da Thomas Van Dyke (wanda aka haifa a shekarar 1938) a ranar 30 ga Mayu, 2015 a birnin Kansas.

Ita 'yar uwa ce ga shugabannin Amurka George HW Bush da George W. Bush ta hanyar iyalan Pierce, kakarta kuma Pierce ce a lokacin haihuwa.

## Duba kuma

* Zaɓen Majalisar Wakilai ta Amurka na 2008 a Missouri# Gundumar 6

## Nassoshi