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Sharon Pratt Dixon

Sharon Pratt Dixon (later Sharon Pratt Kelly; b. 1944) was the first black woman to be elected mayor of a large, influential city in the United States. On January 2, 1991 she was sworn in as the mayor of Washington, DC.

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