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Stephanie Miner

Stephanie A. Miner
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53rd Mayor of Syracuse
Assumed office
January 1, 2010
Preceded by Matt Driscoll
Co-Chairperson of the New York State Democratic Committee
In office
June 2012 – April 2014
Serving with Keith L. T. Wright
Preceded by David Pollack (2006)
Succeeded by David Paterson
Member of Syracuse Common Council
In office
January 1, 2002 – December 31, 2009
Personal details
Born (1970-04-30) April 30, 1970 (age 47)
Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) John F.X. Mannion
Residence Syracuse, New York
Alma mater Syracuse University (B.A.)
University at Buffalo Law School (J.D.)
Occupation Attorney, Politician

Stephanie Ann Miner (born April 30, 1970) is an American attorney, Democratic politician, and current mayor of Syracuse, New York, the first woman to hold the office.

Stephanie A. Miner is the 53rd Mayor of the City of Syracuse. Mayor Miner was first elected in 2009 and re-elected in 2013 with 68% of the vote. Mayor Miner is the first woman elected Mayor of Syracuse and the first women to lead one of New York's "Big 5" cities.

Born on April 30, 1970, she became involved in politics at an early age by stuffing envelopes for local candidates at her grandmother's kitchen table in the Eastwood neighborhood. Miner was born in Syracuse, New York, to Edward Miner, MD, a physician and an army officer, and Dianne Cooney, a nurse and current dean of the Wegman School of Nursing at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York.

Miner attended high school in Homer, New York, where she was senior class president and voted most likely to succeed. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, in journalism and political science from Syracuse University in 1992, and her J.D. from the University at Buffalo Law School in 1999.

In 1994, she served as a regional representative for then-governor of New York Mario Cuomo. Upon graduating from law school, she was hired at the Syracuse law firm Blitman and King LLP, where she worked until resigning in March 2009, to focus on her mayoral campaign. Miner began her political career in 2001, when she was elected to the Syracuse Common Council. She was re-elected in 2005.

After law school, Mayor Miner began representing employees and unions, as a labor lawyer. In her first run for public office in 2001, she ran for one of Syracuse's two at-large Common Council seats up for election. She placed first among four candidates. Her tough leadership on important city issues propelled her to re-election in 2005 when she again placed first among four candidates for the two seats. Miner received the most votes of any candidate on the ballot, including the incumbent Mayor.


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