List of first women mayors in the United States


The first woman to serve as mayor in the United States, and in the world, is believed to be Susanna Madora Salter of the United States, who served as mayor of Argonia, Kansas, in 1887. However, the first woman recorded winning a mayoral election was Nancy Smith in 1862, who declined to be sworn in as mayor of Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Doris A. Davis was the first woman and first African American woman elected mayor in the City of Compton in 1973.

Alabama

1984

Alaska

2011

Arizona

1927
1976
1995

Arkansas

1925
1966

California

1915
1916
1924
1926
1929
1948
1953
1968
1971
1974
1976
1977
1978
1979
1981
1982
1983
1986
1990
1997
2011
2012
2016
2017
2018

Colorado

1916
1929
1965
1969
1995

Connecticut

1967
1987
2007
2013
2017

Delaware

1966

Florida

1917
1921
1922
1928
1961
1976
1978
1987
2006
2007
2014
2015
2016
2017

Georgia

1921
1934
1978
1991
2001
2010
2012

Hawaii

1981
1991

Idaho

1898
2003

Illinois

1911
1915
1923
1979
1983
2001 - Mayor Bette Thomas - First Black Female Mayor of North Chicago

Indiana

1957
1980
1999
2006
2007
2007
2011

Iowa

1862
1923
1973
2013

Kansas

1800s

1888
1889
1893
1894
1896
1897

1900s

1911
1913
1917
1920
1975
1997
2020

Kentucky

1951
1993

Louisiana

1920
1925
1956
1990
2017
2018

Maine

1946

Maryland

2001
2007

Massachusetts

1939
1955
1964
1972
1982
1983
1986
1987
1989
1991
1992
1993
1997
1999
2003
2005
2007
2009
2016
2017
2018

Michigan

1973
1991
2015
2018

Minnesota

1921
1921
1953
1992
1994
2008
2013
2018

Mississippi

1950
1977
2001
2005
2009
2017

Missouri

1921
1924
1936
1977
1982
1999
2017

Montana

1947

Nebraska

1921
1975
2006
2013

Nevada

1985
1999

New Hampshire

1944
2007
2015
2017

New Jersey

1925
1950
1951
1967
1973
1974
1977
2002
2008
2013
2014
2015
2020

New Mexico

1936
1994

New York

1929
1937
1945
1949
1955
1957
1973
1974
1975
1977
1979
1981
1982
1984
1987
1993
1995
2001
2008
2009
2013

North Carolina

1922
1924
1975
1977
1981
1985
1987
1989
1991
1993
1995
1999
2017

North Dakota

1946
1982

Ohio

1921
1923
1954
1961
1972
1984
2001
2001
2002
2017

Oklahoma

1971
1992

Oregon

1895
1912
1914
1917
1918
1920
1949
1955
1981
1983
1985
1993
2000
2017

Pennsylvania

1977
1989
1993
2009

Rhode Island

2008

South Carolina

1992
2008

South Dakota

1922
1950

Tennessee

1940
1961
2011
2015

Texas

1917
1920
1975
1976
1977
1982
1985
1987
1989
1999
2014
2015

Utah

1912
1919
1982
1991
1992
1998
2009
2013
2018

Vermont

1980

Virginia

1930
Carrie Wright, first female elected to mayor of Troutdale, Va
1948
1950
1962
1963
1986
1988
2008
2018

Washington

1926
1953
1975
1977
2012
2017

West Virginia

1937

Wisconsin

1997

Wyoming

1912
1920
2008
2014
2016

U.S. territories and associated states

District of Columbia

1990

Puerto Rico

1946