Lovely Warren, the former mayor of Rochester, New York, was the first woman and second African-American to hold the seat, after winning the Democratic Party primary in a resounding fashion.
Warren was born and raised in upstate New York. She attended John Jay College of Criminal Justice and graduated with a bachelor’s in Government, then entered the Albany Law School of Union University, earning her Juris Doctor degree. She was motivated to become a lawyer after her father was wounded working as a security guard for a grocery store. Cecil McClary passed a day after his daughter was sworn in as mayor on January 2, 2014.
The future mayor’s first foray into politics occurred in 2007 when she was elected to the Rochester City Council. She rose fast and in 2010, she was elected the council’s fifth president, the youngest in city history. In 2013, she announced her mayoral run and won on a platform promoting education and improving services in the culturally and racially diverse city. (READ MORE)
