predecessor successor party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
anthony foxx patrick cannon democratic 55th council member of the mecklenburg county board of commissioners mayor of charlotte member of the charlotte city 1941 july 1990 1 , 2013 dec. 2 , 2013 2003 patsy kinsey
 december 2 , 2013 july 1 , 2013 1994 patsy kinsey
patsy kinsey

patsy kinsey -lrb- born 1941 -rrb- is an american politician and member of the democratic party who served as the mayor of charlotte , north carolina for five months in 2013 .
she served out the remainder of the term of former mayor anthony foxx , who resigned to become united states secretary of transportation .
kinsey is the second woman to serve as mayor of charlotte .
the city 's first female mayor was republican sue myrick , who held the office from 1987 to 1991 .
a democrat , kinsey served as a mecklenburg county commissioner from 1990 to 1994 .
she was then elected as a member of the charlotte city council from district 1 for five consecutive terms , from 2003 until the council elected her mayor on july 1 , 2013 , minutes after foxx resigned from office .
north carolina state law required that foxx 's appointed successor be of the same political party .
both kinsey and foxx are members of the democratic party and democrats held a 9-2 majority on the city council in july 2013 .
five democratic city council members and one republican member , warren cooksey , voted for kinsey .
two democratic council members , beth pickering and claire fallon , voted against kinsey .
three other council members - republican andy dulin and democrats patrick cannon and michael barnes - missed the meeting and did not vote .
kinsey was sworn in as mayor on july 1 , 2013 , the same day as her election .
she resigned from her seat on the city council as part of the agreement to become mayor , which included the understanding that she would not stand in the mayoral election in november .
she instead ran to reclaim her former district 1 city council seat in the november 2013 election .
she was elected with only write-in opposition , and resumed her service as a regular council member in december 2013 , while patrick cannon took office as mayor .
kinsey was named charlotte 's 2013 woman of the year by the charlotte observer in february 2014 .
