My heart is full of love we have a strong black woman in the office. St. Louis is coming out of the fog, maybe we are waking up. She gave a beautiful speech. She is a humble and strong woman. She is now mayor of St. Louis. And god knows we needed a change in this city. She had a great acceptance speech. She is a strong woman. She is a real black woman. St. Louis mo should be proud. Let get to work. She gave a heartfelt speech must watch. With a tearful tribute to her mother. She wants to be a mayor to all people and now she will be a great mayor.
ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones will be the first Black woman to serve as mayor of St. Louis after defeating Alderwoman Cara Spencer in Tuesday’s general election.
Jones defeated Spencer with 51.68% of the vote. Jones and Spencer, both Democrats, advanced to the general election after St. Louis’s first nonpartisan primary election.
Tishaura Oneda Jones (/tɪʃɑːrʌ/ tish-ARE-ə; born March 10, 1972) is an American politician from St. Louis, Missouri. Since 2013, she has served as the Treasurer of St. Louis, the first African-American woman to hold the position. Jones became the mayor-elect of St. Louis after winning the 2021 St. Louis mayoral election, and will take office on April 20. A member of the Democratic Party, Jones was previously elected to the Missouri House of Representatives to represent the 63rd district in 2008, serving until 2013, when she stepped down to take office as treasurer.
Born in St. Louis to a former city comptroller, Jones studied at Hampton University in Virginia, returning to St. Louis upon graduating in 1994. Following a failed attempt to start a restaurant that left her bankrupt, she entered the world of nursing, graduating from the Saint Louis University College for Public Health with a Master of Health Administration in 2001 and working for Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital for two years. Jones entered politics in 2002, when she was appointed to the Democratic Party Central Committee for St. Louis’s eighth ward. In 2008, she successfully ran for the Missouri House of Representatives, being elected to represent the 63rd district over independent candidate Nels Williams with 85.4 percent of the vote. After running unopposed for re-election to the House in 2010, Jones ran for St. Louis Treasurer for the first time in 2012, and won the general election with 77.9 percent of the vote. She was re-elected as treasurer in 2016 and 2020.
As treasurer, Jones has been credited with using the office, which was widely regarded previously as an unimportant and scandal-ridden bureaucratic position, to start new programs in the city. These include a program that educates citizens on financial literacy and a program that uses parking meter revenue to give public school kindergarten students a savings account to help them afford college education. Jones has also received national attention for her responses to media criticism of her, which she has variously described as racist, sexist, and unfair.
In 2017, Jones, a self-described progressive, lost a bid to become Mayor of St. Louis after being narrowly defeated in the city’s Democratic primary by moderate[2] Lyda Krewson. On November 4, 2020, after being elected treasurer for a third term, Jones announced she would once again campaign for the mayor’s office. She won the election against St. Louis Alderwoman Cara Spencer on April 7, 2021. She will be the third African-American, the second woman, and the first African-American woman to hold the position.