The City of Rockingham in Perth, Western Australia, was gazetted on 4 February 1897 as the Rockingham Road Board with a chairman and councillors under the Roads Boards Act 1871.
Rockingham attained city status on 12 November 1988, at which point the president became a mayor.
[1][2][3][4] Rockingham's current mayor, Deb Hamblin was elected on 16 October 2021 and thereby became the first female to hold this office.
[5] Her predecessor, Barry Sammels, at the time of the announcement of his retirement in August 2021 had been the longest-serving active mayor in Western Australia, having first been elected mayor of Rockingham in 2003.
After an eight year debate, the council voted in September 2020 to change to a publicly-elected mayor.