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Website. Official website. Jean Louise Stothert (née Wolf; born February 7, 1954) is an American politician and former nurse serving as the 51st mayor of Omaha, Nebraska. She is the first woman to hold the office and was sworn in as Mayor on June 10, 2013. She was re-elected on May 10, 2017, [ 1 ] and May 11, 2021.
The Omaha City Council is the legislative branch and is made up seven members elected from districts across the city. The council enacts local ordinances and approves the city budget. Government priorities and activities are established in a budget ordinance approved annually. The council takes official action through the passage of ordinances ...
The history of Omaha, Nebraska, began before the settlement of the city, with speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa staking land across the Missouri River illegally as early as the 1840s. When it was legal to claim land in Indian Country, William D. Brown was operating the Lone Tree Ferry to bring settlers from Council Bluffs to Omaha.
Named mayor by the City Council on February 3, 1987 after mayor Mike Boyle was recalled. [5] Simon died on April 14, 1988 with City Council President Fred Conley served as acting mayor until the council was able to convene to name an interim mayor. [5] 50 Fred L. Conley (acting mayor) April 14, 1988 April 20, 1988 Democratic
African Americans in Omaha, Nebraska, are central to the development and growth of the 43rd largest city in the United States.While population statistics show almost constantly increasing percentages of Black people living in the city since it was founded in 1854, [1] Black people in Omaha have not been represented equitably in the city's political, social, cultural, economic or educational ...
The City of Omaha administers twelve departments, including finance, police, human rights, libraries and planning. [228] The Omaha City Council is the legislative branch and has seven members elected from districts across the city. The council enacts local ordinances and approves the city budget. Government priorities and activities are ...
Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area. The Omaha metropolitan area, officially known as the Omaha, NE–IA, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), is an urbanized, bi-state metro region in Nebraska and Iowa in the American Midwest, centered on the city of Omaha, Nebraska. The region consists of eight counties (five in Nebraska and three in ...
The first recorded instance of a black person in the Omaha area occurred in 1804. "York" was a slave belonging to William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. [2]The presence of several black people, probably slaves, was recorded in the area comprising North Omaha today when Major Stephen H. Long's expedition arrived at Fort Lisa in September 1819.