Joanne Anderson | |
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2nd Mayor of Liverpool | |
In office 10 May 2021 – 5 May 2023 | |
Deputy | Jane Corbett |
Preceded by | Joe Anderson |
Succeeded by | Office abolished Liam Robinson as Leader of Liverpool City Council |
Liverpool City Councillor for Princes Park | |
In office 17 October 2019 – 7 May 2021 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Liverpool, England | 7 January 1971
Political party | Labour |
Children | 1 |
Alma mater | Liverpool John Moores University |
Joanne Marie Anderson (born 7 January 1971)[1] is a British Labour Party politician who served as the second and final directly elected Mayor of Liverpool from 2021 to 2023. She previously served as the Liverpool City Councillor for the Princes Park ward from October 2019 to May 2021. She was the first woman to be Mayor of the city and the first black woman to be a directly elected mayor in the UK. Anderson left office in May 2023 at the end of her term.