Mayor
|
Start of Term
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End of Term
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Administrator
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Notes
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Elections[5]
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James W. Rutherford
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1975
|
1983
|
|
|
Year
|
Votes
|
opponent
|
opponent's votes
|
1975
|
20,679
|
Floyd J. McCree
|
20,474
|
1979
|
20,738
|
Floyd J. McCree
|
12,902
|
|
James A. Sharp, Jr.
|
1983
|
1987
|
|
|
1983
|
21,718
|
James W. Rutherford
|
20,467
|
|
Matthew S. Collier
|
1987
|
1991[4]
|
|
First elected African-American mayor 2nd African-American mayor
|
1987
|
22,874
|
James A. Sharp, Jr.
|
19,509
|
|
Woodrow Stanley
|
1991
|
March 5, 2002
|
? (1991–2001) Darnell Earley (2001–2002)
|
3rd African-American mayor Recalled from office in third term[6]
|
1991
|
25,946
|
Matt Collier
|
17,686
|
1995
|
21,687
|
Don Williamson
|
9,168
|
1999
|
17,224
|
Scott Kincaid
|
16,393
|
2002
|
12,336
|
Recall
|
15,863
|
|
Darnell Earley
|
March 5, 2002
|
August 6, 2002
|
himself
|
Temporary Mayor per City Charter Effectively City Administrator as of July 9, 2002, due to State appointment of Emergency Financial Manager, Ed Kurtz
|
James W. Rutherford
|
August 6, 2002
|
2003
|
Darnell Earley
|
elected to fill remainder of Stanley term; City still under State Financial Manager
|
2002
|
11,239
|
Arthur J. Pointer (WI)
|
4,712
| [7]
|
Don Williamson
|
2003
|
February 15, 2009
|
Peggy R. Cook (2003–2007) Darryl Buchanan (2007–2009) Michael Brown (2009)
|
Initially under Emergency Financial Manager lifted in 2004. facing recall; resigns[8]
|
|
Michael Brown
|
February 16, 2009[8]
|
August 5, 2009
|
himself
|
Temporary Mayor per City Charter[8]
|
Dayne Walling
|
August 5, 2009[9]
|
November 9, 2015
|
|
Powers remove effective 12/1/2011 under city's financial emergency & transfer to an Emergency Manager[13] of which several individuals served until April 30, 2015, when a Receivership Board assume some oversight.[12]
|
2009
|
12,266
|
Brenda Clack
|
6,876
|
2011
|
8,819 (56%)
|
Darryl Buchanan
|
6,868 votes (44%)[14]
|
|
Karen Weaver
|
November 9, 2015
|
November 11, 2019
|
- Natasha Henderson[12]
- Sylvester Jones
- Steve Branch (Chief of Staff, interim)[15]
|
under RTA Board oversight[12] First female mayor of Flint.
|
2015
|
7,825 (55%)
|
Dayne Walling
|
6,061 (43%)[16]
|
|
Sheldon Neeley
|
November 11, 2019
|
present
|
Clyde Edwards[17]
|
|
2019
|
7,082 (50.19%)
|
Karen Weaver
|
6,877 (48.74%)[18]
|
|