Member of the San Antonio City Council from District 2
In office 2009–2014
Personal details
Born
(1970-06-17) June 17, 1970 (age 54) Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Political party
Nonpartisan (as officeholder)
Democratic as registered member
Spouse
Rodney Taylor
Alma mater
Yale University (AB) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MS) University of Pennsylvania (Ed.D.)[1]
Profession
Urban planner[2]
Website
City website Campaign website
Ivy Ruth Taylor (born June 17, 1970)[2] is the former Mayor of San Antonio, Texas from 2014 through 2017, and the former president of Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi from 2017 through 2023. The former politician and urban planner was a nonpartisan officeholder,[3] although she is registered as a Democrat.[4] She was also the first African American to be elected mayor of San Antonio and only the second woman in that position. In addition, Taylor was the first female African-American mayor of a city with a population of more than one million.[5]
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^ ab"Application for a place on the City of San Antonio General Election Ballot" (PDF). City of San Antonio. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
^Svitek, Patrick (June 14, 2015). "Taylor's San Antonio Win a Wake-Up Call for Democrats". Texas Tribune. Austin, Texas. Archived from the original on June 26, 2015. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
^Rauf, David Saleh (June 16, 2016). "Democratic party touts the leadership of large municipal mayors". San Antonio Express-News. Archived from the original on June 18, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
^Selby, W. Gardner (August 6, 2014). "With Ivy Taylor, San Antonio is largest U.S. city to ever have African American female mayor". PolitiFact.com. Archived from the original on October 7, 2016. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
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