List of mayors of Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills, California was incorporated January 24, 1914. The City Council members of Beverly Hills are elected by the voters. The rotating positions of Mayor and Vice Mayor are selected by the City Council from among themselves.^[1] The following is a list of the city's mayors.

The mayoral offices are located in the Beverly Hills City Hall.

Mayors of Beverly Hills[]

Name	Image	Term(s)	Notes	Ref(s)
			Founder and first mayor of Beverly Hills.	[2]
Silsby M. Spalding		1922–28	Wealthy oil man, stock broker, rancher	[3]
Will Rogers		1928	Honorary position appointed by real-life Beverly Hills mayor Silsby M. Spalding	[3]
		1929–33	City Attorney	[4]
		1933–41	Civil engineer	[5]
		1941–42	Retired real estate broker, appointed upon the sudden death of Mayor Spence	[6]
		1942–45	First law office in Beverly Hills, first president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association	[7]
		1945–48	Edward Paul Dentzel, building contractor and subdivision developer. Built amusement parks at Venice Beach, Santa Monica and Ocean Park	[8]
		1948–50
		1950–51	State insurance commissioner, military veteran of World War I	[9]
		1951–52	Chairman of the Beverly Hills Planning Commission; founding partner of Sherman Oaks-based Olson Farms Inc.	[10]
		1952–53 1956–57	Attorney, philanthropist	[11]
		1953–54 1957–58		[12]
Harold L. George		1954–55 1959–60	Army Air Corps lieutenant general; during his administration, Roxbury Park was renamed Roxbury Memorial Park to honor all who served in the United States military.	[13]
		1955–56 1958–59		[14]
		1960–61	Founding law partner of Guthrie & Darling	[15]
		1961–62	Helped create the city's Planning Commission	[16]
Leroy H. Watson		1962–63	Retired US Army major general who commanded 3rd Armored Division and 79th Infantry Division in World War II	[17]
		1963–64	Owner of Gunther's Drug Store	[18]
		1964–65	Helped the city acquire Greystone Mansion in 1965	[19]
		1965–66 1969–70		[20]
		1966–67 1970–71		[21]
A. Fredric Leopold		1967–68 1971–72	Entertainment lawyer	[22]
		1968–69 1975–76	Attorney, former president of the Southern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union	[23]
		1972–73 1977–78		[24]
		1973–74	First woman elected to the Beverly Hills City Council; first woman stage manager on Broadway	[25]
		1974–75 1979–80		[26]
		1976–77 1981–82		[27]
		1978–79		[28]
		1980–81 1985–86	Investments management	[29]
		1982–83 1987–88	Los Angeles Olympic Citizens Advisory Commission	[30]
		1983–84	President of Norton Brothers and Morris	[31]
		1984–85	Founding board member of Beverly Hills Meals on Wheels; Membership Chairperson of the League of Women Voters	[32]
		1986–87		[33]
Robert K. Tanenbaum		1988–89 1992–93	Former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, true crime author	[34]
		1989–90 1990–91 1993–94		[35]
		1990–91 1995–96	Real estate attorney	[36]
		1991–92 1994–95 2000–01		[37]
		1996–97 1999–2000 2003–04		[38]
		1997–98 2002–03
		1998–99		[39]
		2001–02 2004–05		[40]
		2005–06	Chairman of the Westside Cities Council of Governments	[41]
Stephen P. Webb		2006–07		[42]
Jimmy Delshad		2007–08 2010–11	First Iranian-American to hold public office in Beverly Hills	[43]
Barry Brucker		2007–08 2010–11
		2009	The only person in Beverly Hills to hold all three city-elected positions (City Council, City Treasurer, and Board of Education). Served the city for 30 years. He and Will Rogers are the only two people honored by parks in their name in Beverly Hills.	[44]
Nancy Krasne		2009–10
William W. Brien		2012–13		[45]
		2015–16 2018–19	Co-Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at Cedars-Sinai	[46]
Lili Bosse		2014–15 2017–18	Instituted weekly "Walk with the Mayor" to promote physical fitness	[47]
John A. Mirisch		2013–14 2016–17 2019–20	Instituted the Sunshine Task Force for transparency in city government	[48]
		2020–21	Director and Management Chair of the California Applicant’s Attorneys Association	[49]
Robert Wunderlich		2021–22		[50]

References[]

External links[]

• City of Beverly Hills: Former Beverly Hills Mayors