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 Izalene Tiene assume e é a 1ª prefeita de Campinas 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 Tartu linnapead 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, IndianaBedford mayoral site 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 WIS News 10 Pam Lee, first woman elected mayor of Mullins, South Carolina, United States Mimi Elrod, first woman elected mayor of Lexington, Virginia, United States Rockbridge Report, 2025-04-03 "Lexington's first female mayor dies at 81, retrieved 2025-08-19 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 Kuwait Times

2009 Cheri Barry, first woman elected mayor of Meridian, Mississippi, United States City of Meridian, Mississippi website Maria Teresa Beccari, first woman elected mayor of City of San Marino Donna McFadden-Connors, first woman appointed mayor of Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States Times Leader 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