Jeanne Bonds

Jeanne Milliken Bonds was the first female Mayor of Knightdale, North Carolina, USA. Bonds was first appointed to the Town Council in 1994, elected Mayor Pro Tem in 1995, and elected by popular vote in 1995. Bonds was re-elected in 1999 and appointed mayor in 2002 to fill a vacancy created upon the election of Joe Bryan to the Wake County Board of Commissioners.

Bonds has been a federal and state lobbyist; strategic communications and community relations professional; development professional; and economic development professional. She has authored speeches for government officials and executives.

Bonds is a native of Wilmington, North Carolina, born in 1962 (14 November). She graduated from John T. Hoggard High School in 1981. Bonds is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned a degree in Economics in 1985 and a graduate degree in Public Administration in 1991. She is an alumna of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority (See List of Kappa Alpha Theta sisters). She is married to Robert Alexander Bonds III, of Natchez, Mississippi, a graduate of the University of Mississippi and North Carolina State University (MBA). Robert Bonds' grandfather, Robert A. Bonds, Sr. served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and his grandmother, Annie Hastings Bonds, also served in the same House seat when her husband died. Robert A. Bonds, Jr. was a judge in Natchez.

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