16 Facts About Betsy Hodges

Elizabeth A Hodges was born on September 7,1969 and is an American politician who served as the 47th Mayor of Minneapolis from 2014 to 2018.

Betsy Hodges won the 2013 mayoral election and was inaugurated on January 2,2014.

Betsy Hodges ran for reelection in 2017, but lost to fellow Democrat Jacob Frey.

Betsy Hodges father was a cardiologist at Hennepin County Medical Center.

Betsy Hodges moved to southwest Minneapolis in 1998 and was the development director for the Minneapolis-based nonprofit Progressive Minnesota for a few years before serving on the staff of Hennepin County Commissioner Gail Dorfman.

Betsy Hodges returned to fundraising work in 2003, working for the Minnesota Justice Foundation.

Betsy Hodges served on the Linden Hills Community Council from 2000 to 2005 and as co-chair of the council from 2003 to 2005.

In November 2005, Betsy Hodges was elected to represent Ward 13 on the Minneapolis City Council, defeating Lisa McDonald.

From January 2006 until she became mayor in January 2014, Betsy Hodges represented Ward 13.

Betsy Hodges was the chair of the council's Intergovernmental Relations Committee, a position that lobbies for the city at the State Capitol, and chaired the Ways and Means Committee, which oversaw a budget of $1.2 billion in 2013.

In 2011, Betsy Hodges was the council's point person on a pension-reform package.

In 2013, Betsy Hodges ran for Minneapolis mayor against a field of 34 other candidates.

Betsy Hodges's platform emphasized economic and educational equality, municipal management efficiency, and infrastructure investment.

Betsy Hodges was on the Board of Estimation and Taxation and spent four years on the Youth Coordinating Board.

Betsy Hodges ran for reelection as mayor in the 2017 election and was eliminated in the fifth and final round of voting, finishing third among the five candidates who made it to the second round.

In 2020, Betsy Hodges published an editorial in The New York Times.