Jane Williams-Warren (born 1947) served as the second female African-American mayor of Paterson, New Jersey (2017–2018).
[4][2] She was the first African-American to serve as the president of the Municipal Clerks’ Association of New Jersey.
[2] On September 29, 2017, after being coaxed out of retirement, she was appointed mayor of Paterson by the City Council in a 5-4 vote[2][5] to replace interim mayor and City Council president Ruby Cotton who had replaced former mayor Jose “Joey” Torres after his conviction for corruption.
[1] Williams-Warren was seen as a politically neutral choice compared to Cotton, Paterson's first African-American female mayor, who had succeeded to mayor by virtue of being council president.
[1][2] On July 1, 2018, after the general election, she was succeeded by Andre Sayegh, Paterson's first Arab-American mayor.