Karen Freeman-Wilson, the first black female mayor of Gary, Indiana

Karen Freeman-Wilson (pictured), has been elected as the first black, first female mayor of Gary, Indiana.

Freeman-Wilson, a Democrat, garnered 86 percent of the vote, far ahead of her nearest competitor, an independent who received 7.5 percent.

Freeman-Wilson is a native of Gary, a Harvard law graduate and the former Indiana attorney general, a position to which she was appointed in 2000 by then-Gov. Frank O’Bannon. She did not win an election to a full term as attorney general.

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