Mattie Parker (born November 9, 1983)[2][3] is an American attorney, business owner, and politician serving as the 45th Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas.

[4] After coming in second place in the first round of voting in May 2021, Parker faced off against Deborah Peoples, the Tarrant County Democratic Party chair, in the run-off election on June 5, 2021.

During her junior year at the University of Texas, Parker became a press assistant in then-Texas House of Representatives Speaker Tom Craddick's office.

[10] While attending law school, Parker served as campaign manager for U.S. Rep Kay Granger, the first Republican woman to represent Texas in the U.S. House and Fort Worth's first female mayor.

[16] Parker was appointed Chief of Staff for Fort Worth's mayor and concurrently served on the city council starting in 2015,[17] where she remained until April 2020.

[25][28] The two candidates competed in a June 5 runoff election, which attracted the highest early voter turnout in a Fort Worth mayor's race in at least a decade.

[37] “The Texas Blockchain Council is thrilled to be part of this first-of-its-kind pilot program as the City of Fort Worth begins mining Bitcoin.

The state as a whole has already established itself as the bitcoin mining capital of the world,” said President and Founder of Texas Blockchain Council Lee Bratcher.

“We are grateful for the support of several of our member companies, specifically, Luxor Technologies and Rhodium Enterprises, as they provided strategic guidance for this project.”[38] Mattie Parker has repeatedly stated that education and school reform was a priority for her term as mayor of Fort Worth.

In the twelve school districts that service Fort Worth, Parker's "number one priority" is that every student has an equal chance at success.