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Cherelle Lesley Parker (born September 9, 1972) [2] is an American politician who has served as the 100th mayor of Philadelphia since 2024. She is the first woman to hold the office. [3] [4] Parker served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 2005 to 2015, representing the 200th district in Northwest Philadelphia.
Maria Quiñones-Sánchez was born in Puerto Rico on November 21, 1968. In 1969, at six months old, she moved to Philadelphia, along with her mother and two older brothers, to be closer to her father, who worked as a seasonal farmworker.
Tasco retired at the end of her term in January 2016. She served a total of twenty-eight years on the council, part of which as its majority leader. [22] [3] Cherelle Parker, who previously worked in the council under Tasco, was elected to fill Tasco's seat in November 2015. [28]
In one of her campaign ads, Cherelle Parker, then the Democratic nominee for mayor in Philadelphia, speaks candidly about the power of representation. Philadelphia's new mayor — its 100th ...
Cherelle Parker, shown arriving at an election night event party November, publicly swore her oath of office as Philadelphia’s 100th mayor on Tuesday, becoming the first woman to do so.
Voters elected two women for the first time to lead Philadelphia and Pennsylvania’s second-largest county, installing Democrat Cherelle Parker as the 100th mayor of the state’s largest city ...
The first mayor of Philadelphia was Humphrey Morrey, who was appointed to the position by William Penn, the founder of the city and the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania, which became the state of Pennsylvania following the American Revolutionary War.
Democrat Cherelle Parker, a former member of the Philadelphia City Council, has been elected the city’s next mayor, NBC News projects, which will make her the first woman to hold the office.