City Council President Mary Sheffield will be Detroit’s newest mayor and the first woman to lead the city.
Sheffield defeated popular megachurch pastor the Rev. Solomon Kinloch in Tuesday’s general election.
She will take office in January and succeed three-term Mayor Mike Duggan, who announced last year that he would not seek reelection. Duggan is running for Michigan governor as an independent to replace term-limited Democrat Gretchen Whitmer.
Sheffield thanked voters in her victory speech Tuesday night, addressing those who voted for her and those who didn’t.
