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Kathy Kozachenko (born 1953) is an American politician who was the first openly LGBT candidate to successfully run for political office in the United States. [1] Kozachenko ran on the ticket of the Human Rights Party (HRP), the local, left-wing third party, which had already succeeded in winning two Ann Arbor, Michigan, council seats in 1972.
In 2008, Taylor was elected to Ann Arbor City Council as a Democrat, on which he served a total of three terms before announcing his mayoral campaign in 2013. After winning a highly contested Democratic primary in August 2014, he was elected Mayor of Ann Arbor on November 4, 2014, winning 84.21% of the vote as he easily defeated independent ...
By the time she was approached to run for office by the local Human Rights Party, two other Ann Arbor City Council members had already made LGBTQ history in their own right. In 1972, Jerry ...
Ann Arbor is a city in and the county seat of Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States. [7] The 2020 census recorded its population to be 123,851, making it the fifth-most populous city in Michigan. [8] It is the principal city of the Ann Arbor metropolitan area, which encompasses all of Washtenaw County and had 372,258 residents in 2020.
1. Alma mater. Eastern Michigan University. John Hieftje ( / ˈhiːftjɛ / HEEFT-yeh, /- dʒə / -jə) is an American politician who served as the 60th mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan. [1] Hieftje began his political career in 1999, when he was elected to the city council for Ann Arbor's 1st Ward as a Democrat. He was first as Mayor in 2000 ...
Activist, politician, writer. Nancy Wechsler is an activist, writer, and former member of the Ann Arbor City Council, where she came out as a lesbian while serving her term. [1] [2] Elected to the City Council alongside fellow Human Rights Party candidate Jerry DeGrieck, both Wechsler and DeGrieck came out while serving, and are typically cited ...
Ann Arbor City Council passed a law to gradually ban gas-powered leaf blowers, citing noise and pollution concerns.
Ann Arbor Council of the Commons. In 2021, Zemke was appointed as chair of Ann Arbor's Council of the Commons, an advisory body to the city council tasked with implementing a 2018 change to the city charter to develop the roof of an underground parking structure as a park rather than the previously planned housing development.