In the May 2006 city election, incumbent mayor Larry Rogers, who also serves on JMU's Board of Visitors, lost his bid for reelection to a JMU graduate.

* December 4 – Dianne Feinstein succeeds the murdered George Moscone as San Francisco, California's first woman mayor ( she serves until January 8, 1988 ).

The mayor serves along with a 25 member commission of elected officials representing the many small communities spread across the county.

The county mayor, typically, serves as chair of the County Commission and breaks a tie if one occurs during voting.

Ed Eilert, former mayor of Overland Park serves as the current County Chairman.

Daphne ’ s current mayor is Bailey Yelding Jr. A seven member city council serves the city of Daphne.

The mayor serves as the full time city executive while council members serve part time.

In many municipal systems the mayor serves as chief executive officer and / or ceremonial official of many types of municipalities.

Dothan's mayor is elected at-large for four years, and serves as a member of the Board of Commissioners.

The mayor serves as chief executive officer of the City and is responsible for the daily operations of all departments of the City.

As of December 2010, Toni Iseman serves as Laguna Beach's mayor and Jane as mayor pro tem.

The City of Rancho Cordova has a Council-manager form of government with five members elected to the Council, one of whom serves as mayor each year.

The mayor is Clifford R. Lentz, and Ray Miller serves as the Mayor Pro Tem.

The mayor has no veto power, but acts as chairman for council meetings, and serves as a visible head of government.

Windsor is governed by a town council with five members ; one serves as mayor and another serves as vice mayor.

One of them serves as Council President and is considered the mayor of the town.

The municipal government of Henlopen Acres consists of seven elected officials who serve on the town's council, one of whom serves as mayor.

Another council member serves as deputy mayor, another as treasurer, and another as secretary, while the fifth council member serves as a council member alone with no additional duties.

James Hallett currently serves as the elected mayor of the town.

The mayor also serves as the Village's Liquor Control Commissioner as well.

Usually called a governor, mayor, or magistrate, depending on the level, this figure acts to carry out the policies and most ceremonial duties.

Mayor Chuck Mummert — The mayor is elected to a four-year term and is responsible for overseeing the police department, as well as performing ceremonial duties.

At the Annual Council Meeting, a ceremonial mayor is elected to serve for a year.

From 2002 to 2009 one of the councillors had been appointed as the " civic ambassador " and performed the civic and ceremonial role previously carried out by the mayor.

The mayor has no more authority than other city councilors, but is the ceremonial head of the city and chair of the city council and school committee.

Initially, Plan E government in Worcester was organized as a 9-member council ( all at-large ), a ceremonial mayor elected from the council by the councilors, and a council-appointed city manager.

The mayor ( who had to be a serving elected councillor ) was expected to devote much of his ( or her ) time to civic, ceremonial, and representational functions, and to preside over meetings for the advancement of the public welfare.

In a weak mayor or ceremonial mayor system, the mayor has appointing power for department heads but is subject to checks by the city council, sharing both executive and legislative duties with the council.

Charlotte, North Carolina and Minneapolis, Minnesota are two notable large cities with a ceremonial mayor.

The position of acting mayor is usually of considerably more importance in a mayor-council form of municipal government, where the mayor performs functions of day-to-day leadership, than it is in a council-manager form of government, where the city manager provides day-to-day leadership and the position of mayor is either a largely or entirely ceremonial one.

As such, the position of mayor in Tuskegee is primarily ceremonial.

Since 2003, Belle Isle has run under a council-manager government, with the mayor being a strictly ceremonial position.

The City Council chooses one of its members as mayor, and another as vice-mayor ; the mayor serves as chair of the council and school committee, and performs certain ceremonial duties.

The mayor presides over the Borough Council, appoints various boards and committees, oversees borough administration, and serves as the borough's ceremonial head.

The mayor is elected by council from among its members and has additional duties including parliamentary and ceremonial responsibilities.

The mayor is the ceremonial head of government.

In this system, the mayor is the ceremonial head, selected by the council from among its members.

The city's ceremonial head is the mayor, who is a voting member of the council with limited administrative power.

Various articles group lists by title, function or topic: e. g. abdication, assassinated persons, cabinet ( government ), chancellor, ex-monarchs ( 20th century ), head of government, head of state, lieutenant governor, mayor, military commanders, minister ( and ministers by portfolio below ), order of precedence, peerage, president, prime minister, Reichstag participants ( 1792 ), Secretary of State.

Such a corporation in Great Britain consists of a head as a mayor or provost, and of superior members, as aldermen and councillors ".

The mayor is the head of the Local Council and the representative of the Council for all effects under the Act.

Unlike the rest of the cities in the country Sevastopol officially does not have a typical mayor due to its status, functions of which conducts the head of Sevastopol Municipality State Administration or a city governor appointed by the President of Ukraine.

Each parish has its own elected mayor who is the nominal head of the local government known as a comú in Catalan.

Richmond city government consists of a city council with representatives from nine districts serving in a legislative and oversight capacity, as well as a popularly elected, at-large mayor serving as head of the executive branch.

The head of the Sofia Municipality is its mayor.

The city was unique, as it had no council or charter trustees and no mayor or civic head.

From left: Ludwig Wolff head of Deutscher Volksverband from Łódź, Otto Ulitz from Katowice, gauleiter Josef Wagner, mayor Rudolf Wiesner from Bielsko-Biała, obergruppenfuhrer Werner Lorenz, senator Erwin Hasbach from Ciechocinek, baron Gero von Gersdorff from Wielkopolska, Weiss from Jarocin.

The proclamation could be made in an incorporated town or city by the mayor, bailiff or " other head officer ", or a justice of the peace.

The head of the Sevier County government, the county mayor, is elected in county-wide elections.

In addition, provinces which have rural municipalities in place of counties refer to their head elected official as reeve, although some such municipalities are now changing the title to mayor as well.

The mayor is the head of the city council and is elected to four-year terms.

The elected officials that head the government are a mayor and nine council members.

The mayor is the statutory head of the Police department and the Chief Executive Officer of the City.

The officials that head the government are a mayor and four council members, who are elected at large in partisan elections to three-year terms on a staggered basis, with one or two seats coming up for election each year.

The officials that head the government are a mayor and four council members, who are elected at large in partisan elections to three-year terms on a staggered basis, with one or two seats coming up for election each year.

* Randy Ayers-assistant coach of the Washington Wizards, former assistant coach of the Orlando Magic and former head coach of Ohio State and the Philadelphia 76ers, and his brother, Tim Ayers, the city's former mayor

The popular Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou was also elected the new head of the Kuomintang, and was considered the leading contender for the KMT nomination in the 2008 presidential election.