page_title: List of first women mayors
section_title: 1980s
hierarchical_section_title: List of first women mayors / 1980s
caption_attribution_description: English: Catherine Trautmann, Member of the European Parliament for France in Strasbourg, France.
context_page_description: The first woman to serve as mayor is believed to be Susanna M. 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.
context_section_description: 1980
  Janice Bateman, first woman mayor of Berwick, Victoria, Australia 
  Patricia Logan, first woman elected mayor of Noblesville, Indiana, United States 
  Janet Smith, first woman elected mayor of St. Albans (city), Vermont, United States 
  less than a week after she was sworn-in Smith was shot an killed at her home.
  1981
  Joy Burgess, first woman elected mayor of Milwaukie, Oregon, United States 
  Ruth Burleigh, first woman elected mayor of Bend, Oregon, United States
  Juanita Crabb, first woman elected Mayor of Binghamton, New York, United States 
  Eileen Anderson, first woman elected Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States 
  Maria Barnaby Greenwald, first woman elected Mayor of Cherry Hill, New Jersey (previously served 1977 to 1979 as chosen by city council)
  Violet Khouri, first woman elected mayor of Kafr Yasif and the first female mayor in Israel 
  Mary K. Shell, first woman elected mayor of Bakersfield, California, United States 
  Deborah Ponder Baker, first woman mayor of Hot Springs, North Carolina, United States 
  1982
  Kathryn J. Whitmire, first woman elected mayor of Houston, Texas, United States 
  Tina Tomlje, first woman mayor of Ljubljana, present Slovenia 
  Juanita Crabb, first woman elected mayor of Binghamton, New York, United States 
  Grace Bannister, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Belfast, United Kingdom 
  Kit Ward, first woman mayor of Nuneaton and Bedworth, England, United Kingdom 
  Sue Marie Young, first woman elected mayor of Richfield, Utah, United States 
  1983
  Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington, first woman elected Lord Mayor of London, England, United Kingdom 
  Luiza Erundina, first woman elected mayor of São Paulo, Brasil 
  Wendy Chapman, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Adelaide, Australia 
  Elizabeth Kishkon, first woman elected mayor of Windsor, Ontario, Canada 
  Sue Miller, first woman elected mayor of Salem, Oregon, United States 
  Elda Pucci, first woman elected mayor of Palermo, Italy 
  also the first female mayor of an Italian city
  Catherine Tizard, first woman elected mayor of Auckland, New Zealand 
  Helen Westberg, first woman mayor of Carbondale, Illinois, United States 
  1984
  Daurene Lewis, first black female mayor in Nova Scotia, Canada (Annapolis Royal) 
  Mary Kate Stovall, first female, first African American mayor of Hurtsboro, Alabama, United States 
  Donna Owens, first woman elected Mayor of Toledo, Ohio, United States 
  Karen Johnson, first woman elected mayor of Schenectady, New York, United States 
  Elsie Wayne, first woman elected mayor of Saint John, New Brunswick Canada 
  1985
  Sallyanne Atkinson, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Australia 
  first woman member of the Liberal Party of Australia to serve as Lord Mayor
  Ella Bengel, first woman elected mayor of New Bern, North Carolina, United States 
  Dee Donne, the first woman elected mayor of Torrington, Connecticut, United States 
  Bogdana Glumac-Levakov, first woman elected mayor of Zrenjanin, present Serbia 
  Shirley Huffman, first woman elected mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon, United States 
  Lorna Kesterson, first woman elected mayor of Henderson, Nevada, United States 
  Gerri Lynn O'Connor, first woman elected mayor of Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada 
  Ann Pomykal, first woman elected mayor of Lewisville, Texas, United States 
  Joan Barr, first woman elected mayer of Evanston, Illinois, United States 
  1986
  Alexis Ord, first woman elected mayor of Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Australia 
  Gretchen Brewin, first woman elected mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 
  Doone Kennedy, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 
  Maria Luíza Fontenele, first woman elected mayor of Fortaleza, Brasil 
  Maureen O'Connor, first woman elected mayor of San Diego, California, United States 
  Jessie M. Rattley, first woman and African American elected by fellow Council members as mayor of the City of Newport News, Virginia, United States 
  Lois Reed, first woman elected mayor of Malinta, Ohio, United States 
  Reed served for ten minutes before tendering her resignation
  1987
  Maria Magnani Noya, first woman elected mayor of Turin, Italy 
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caption: In 1989, Strasbourg, France elected its first woman mayor, Catherine Trautmann.
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