"Sheffield will inherit a city that continues to improve following Detroit's 2014 exit from the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Duggan was elected in 2013 and took office in January 2014. Under his watch, Detroit has dramatically improved city services, including shorter police response times, public lighting and blight elimination. Detroit has had 12 consecutive years of balanced budgets and the city has been showing historically low violent crime numbers."
"City Council President Mary Sheffield will be Detroit's newest mayor and the first woman to lead the city. Sheffield defeated popular megachurch pastor the Rev. Solomon Kinloch in Tuesday's general election. She will take office in January and succeed three-term Mayor Mike Duggan who announced last year that he would not seek reelection. Duggan is running for Michigan governor as an independent to replace term-limited Democrat Gretchen Whitmer."
Mary Sheffield will become Detroit's mayor in January, the city's first woman mayor, after defeating Rev. Solomon Kinloch in the general election. She will succeed three-term Mayor Mike Duggan, who did not seek reelection and is running for Michigan governor. Sheffield has served on the City Council since 2013 and as council president since 2022. Priorities include education, public safety, and neighborhood quality of life. Sheffield will inherit a city recovering from the 2014 municipal bankruptcy, with improved services, 12 consecutive balanced budgets, falling violent crime, and recent population growth to about 645,705.
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