DETROIT – Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield announced her candidacy for mayor.
Sheffield held a campaign kickoff event on Tuesday (Dec. 10) surrounded by supporters in Corktown.
The Detroit mayoral election will be held Nov. 4, 2025.
Sheffield talked with Local 4 Tuesday about her ambitions of going from city council president to mayor.
“It’s really more of a greater reach and more of an impact I can have moving on to the mayor’s office,” Sheffield said.
Sheffield was elected to the city council in 2013.
“I truly believe we have to have compassionate leadership,” Sheffield said. “Someone who is experienced, who has been here, who has done the work, and knows the issues of Detroit.”
Other likely contenders for mayor include former city councilwoman Saunteel Jenkins, current city councilmember and former legislator Fred Durhal, and Coleman Young II.