power-sharing plan, which, starting in 1973, resulted in a rotating mayorship. After a few years of rotation, they decided that the city council member who received the most votes in the election would automatically become mayor. In 1999, Charlie Luken became the first mayor to take office under a restored system of direct mayoral election. Mayor firsts In 1900, Julius Fleischmann became the youngest mayor of Cincinnati at the age of 28 years. In 1954, Dorothy N. Dolbey became the first female mayor of the City of Cincinnati. In 2006, Mark Mallory was the first directly elected African-American Mayor of Cincinnati. On November 2, 2021, Mayor Pureval was elected the first Asian American mayor of Cincinnati. Mayor Pureval is the 70th and current mayor of Cincinnati. List of mayors See also Election Results, Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio Election Results, City Council of Cincinnati, Ohio Timeline of Cincinnati References Cincinnati Mayors