The civic mayor is appointed annually from the members of Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council and serves for one municipal year.
[1] The first mayor of the Borough of Doncaster under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 was Sir William Bryan Cooke, 8th baronet of Wheatley.
On 18 May 2018 history was made when Councillor Majid Khan became the first ethnic minority Mayor of Doncaster.
[4] Since May 2002 there has also been a directly elected mayor of Doncaster and in May 2012, voters decided in a referendum to keep the position.
2024- Julie grace [9] Media related to Civic mayors of Doncaster at Wikimedia Commons