Abigail Marshall Katung

Abigail Marshall Katung
Lord Mayor of Leeds
Incumbent
Assumed office
2024
Preceded byAl Garthwaite
Leeds City Councillor
for Little London and Woodhouse Ward
Incumbent
Assumed office
2019
Personal details
Born
Abigail Wok Haruna-Musa[1]

(1975-12-07) 7 December 1975 (age 48)
North Central State (now Kaduna State), Nigeria
Political partyLabour Co-op
Alma materUniversity of Leeds

Abigail Wok Marshall Katung (born 7 December 1975) is a Nigerian-British politician and wife of the senator representing the Kaduna South senatorial district, Kaduna State, Nigeria, Sunday Marshall Katung. She was born and raised in Nigeria, but moved to the UK to study in the University of Leeds and as of January 2024 is a governor at the Leeds City College. In May 2024 she took up the position of Lord Mayor of Leeds,[2] becoming the first elected councillor from Africa to hold the council position,[3] the second black person after Eileen Taylor and the 130th of all.[4]

  1. ^ "NIGERIAN COMMUNITY LEEDS". GOV.UK. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
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  4. ^ Connolly, James (19 January 2024). "Abigail Marshall-Katung 'honoured and humbled' to become Leeds' first African Lord Mayor". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 20 January 2024.