List of mayors of Juneau, Alaska facts for kids

Incumbent mayor Beth Weldon speaks in front of the Alaska State Capitol in July 2019.

Juneau, Alaska, presently incorporated as a unified home rule municipality called the City and Borough of Juneau, was designated the capital of Alaska on June 6, 1900. The organic act passed by the U.S. Congress which established Juneau as the capital also allowed Alaskan communities to incorporate for the first time. Sitka and Nome both established "provisional governments" prior to this; Juneau did not follow suit, but did provide limited public services prior to incorporation, such as fire protection and school instruction.

Following the passage of the organic act, Juneau's incorporation petition was certified and the first election of officials occurred on June 29, 1900. Douglas, located a short distance southwest of Juneau across Gastineau Channel, followed suit by incorporating on March 29, 1902. Twenty-eight individuals served as the mayor of Juneau, Alaska, including three acting mayors, while another twenty-five individuals served as mayor of Douglas, Alaska.

The Greater Juneau Borough was incorporated in October 1963, established by an act of the state legislature earlier that year (Chapter 52, Session Laws of Alaska 1963) which required the most populous election districts in the state to incorporate as boroughs by January 1, 1964. The borough, the first to incorporate as a first-class borough, encompassed the two incorporated cities, several surrounding suburbs and smaller settlements on both sides of Gastineau Channel and along Lynn Canal, plus thousands of square miles of surrounding wilderness. Several years after the borough's incorporation, the legislature passed a bill allowing for boroughs and cities to unify (or merge). Several years after that, Juneau, Douglas and the borough unified to form the current municipality, which incorporated on July 1, 1970. As of the office's last election in 2018, sixteen people have served as mayor of Juneau under this government.

Mayors of the City of Juneau, Alaska (1900–1970)

Juneau was incorporated on June 29, 1900, and was a home rule city prior to unification.

No.	Image	Name (birth–death)	Took office	Left office
Acting		John F. Malony (1857–1919)	1900	1900
1		Arthur K. Delaney (1841–1905)	1900	1901
2		George Forrest (c. 1870–[?])	1901	1902
3		Ohlin H. Adsit (1855–1909)	1902	1904
(2)		George Forrest (c. 1870–[?])	1904	1905
4		John F. Malony (1857–1919)	1905	1906
5		Herman Tripp (1859–1939)	1906	1907
(2)		George Forrest (c. 1870–[?])	1907	1908
6		Emery Valentine (1858–1930)	1908	1912
7		Harry Bishop (c. 1869–1920)	1912	1913
8		Charles Carter (1870–1961)	1913	1914
9		John Reck (1865–c. 1950)	1914	1916
10		Benjamin D. Stewart (1878–1976)	1916	1917
(6)		Emery Valentine (1858–1930)	1917	1919
11		J. Latimer Gray	1919	1920
12		R. E. Robertson (1885–1961)	1920	1923
13		Isadore Goldstein (1883–1959)	1923	1925
14		J. J. Connors (1876–1951)	1925	1927
15		Thomas Judson (1882–1938)	1927	1933
(13)		Isadore Goldstein (1883–1959)	1933	1937
(15)		Thomas Judson (1882–1938)	1937	1938
16		Harry Lucas (1890–1949)	1938	1944
17		A. B. Hayes	1944	1945
18		Ernest Parsons	1945	1946
19		Waino Hendrickson (1896–1983)	1946	1953
20		Bert McDowell (1904–c. 1975)	1953	1955
21		M. L. "Molly" MacSpadden (1903–1961)	1955	1959
22		Lauris Parker (1918–2003)	1959	1961
Acting		J. Wayne Johnson	1961	1961
Acting		A. W. Boddy (c. 1909–1987)	1961	1961
(22)		Lauris Parker (1918–2003)	1961	1967
23		Timothy O'Day	1967	1967
24		Joseph George	1967	1969
25		Joseph McLean (1917–2012)	1969	1970

Mayors of the City of Douglas, Alaska (1902–1970)

Douglas was incorporated on March 29, 1902, and was also a home rule city prior to unification..

Mayors of the Greater Juneau Borough, Alaska (1963–1970)

Mayors of the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska (1970–present)

No.	Image	Name (birth–death)	Took office	Left office
1		Joseph McLean (1917–2012)	1970	1973
2		William A. Macomber	1973	October 7, 1975
3		Virginia Kline	October 7, 1975	1976
4		William D. "Bill" Overstreet (1926–2013)	1976	1983
5		Fran Ulmer (1947–)	1983	1985
6		Ernest Polley (c. 1937–1997)	October 14, 1985	October 10, 1988
7		Bruce Botelho (1948–)	October 10, 1988	October 14, 1991
8		Jamie Parsons (1941–2015)	October 14, 1991	October 10, 1994
9		Byron Mallott (1943–2020)	October 10, 1994	February 13, 1995
10		Dennis Egan (1947–2022)	February 13, 1995	October 9, 2000
11		Sally Smith (1945–)	October 9, 2000	October 20, 2003
(7)		Bruce Botelho (1948–)	October 20, 2003	October 11, 2012
12		Merrill Sanford (1947–)	October 11, 2012	October 20, 2015
13		Greg Fisk (1945–2015)	October 20, 2015	November 30, 2015
14		Mary Becker (acting)	November 30, 2015	March 28, 2016
15		Ken Koelsch (c. 1945–)	March 28, 2016	October 15, 2018
16		Beth Weldon (1965–)	October 15, 2018	incumbent