(2008) and mayor (2009) of Broward County (mayor and vice mayor are chosen by vote on commissioners) Craig Lowe – first openly LGBT mayor of Gainesville (and of any north Florida city); elected 2010 Teri Johnston – first openly lesbian mayor of Key West and first openly lesbian mayor in Florida in 2018. Justin Flippen – first openly gay mayor of Wilton Manors in 2018. Dean Trantalis – first openly gay mayor of Fort Lauderdale in 2018. Jane Castor – first openly lesbian mayor of Tampa in 2019. J. Tyler Payne – first openly gay mayor of Treasure Island, Florida in 2021. Georgia Cathy Woolard was elected to the Atlanta City Council in 1997, becoming the first openly LGBT elected official in the state of Georgia. She went on to become council president. Ben Ku was elected to the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners in 2018, becoming the first openly LGBT official to be elected to the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners. Hawaii Tim Riley was elected to the Waianae neighborhood board in February 2019. Illinois Lori Lightfoot, was elected Mayor of Chicago in April 2019, making her the first openly gay mayor of Chicago and making Chicago the largest US city ever to elect an openly gay mayor. Indiana Pete Buttigieg, first major political party candidate for president; before that mayor of South Bend – publicly announced that he was gay in 2015, while in his first term in office; first openly LGBT executive official in Indiana. Veronica Pejril – Indiana's first transgender elected official, Greencastle city council, elected 2019. Iowa Bill Crews – mayor of Melbourne; came out while in office (reelected 1995) Kansas Longest-serving LGBTQ elected official: Henry Schwaller, elected 1999 – city commissioner, Hays, Kansas Mayor: C.C. Smith (female), elected 2017 – Linn Valley, Kansas Kansas has six openly-LGBT city councillors/commissioners, including in two of the state's ten biggest cities: Shawnee and Manhattan. Kentucky Lexington Mayor: Jim Gray Maine Geo Soctomah Neptune – elected 2020; first trans, non-binary, and two-spirit person elected to public office in Maine Massachusetts Cambridge Kenneth Reeves (male), elected 1992 E. Denise Simmons (female), elected 2008 Massachusetts Revere Steven Morabito (male), elected 2013 E. Denise Simmons (female), elected 2008 Michigan Ferndale Mayor: Craig Covey Minnesota Minneapolis Andrea Jenkins elected in 2017, first openly transgender black woman elected to public office in the United States Phillipe Cunningham elected in 2017, first openly transgender