Michael Edward Duggan (born July 15, 1958)[1] is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician serving as the 75th mayor of Detroit, Michigan since 2014.

[8] Duggan spent his first six years at a home on Stansbury Street on the city's west side before moving to nearby Livonia in 1963.

[13] In 2012, Duggan resigned his position at the DMC and moved from the suburb of Livonia to the city of Detroit, intending to run for the office of mayor the following year.

[16] Under Detroit's two-round system, the two highest vote-getters run against one another in the general election, which meant that Duggan ran against second-place finisher Benny Napoleon, who had won 29% of the vote.

[17] Duggan ran with the campaign slogan, "Every neighborhood has a future", on a platform of financial turnaround, crime reduction, and economic development.

[18] He received 55% of the vote in the general election in November, becoming the first white mayor of the now-majority-black city since Roman Gribbs, who served from 1970 to 1974.

[20] Duggan also focused on relighting the city's streetlights, a task in which he saw significant success and built upon efforts initiated by his mayoral predecessor Dave Bing.

[20] During his first term, the municipal government's authority was limited by state oversight, with emergency manager Kevyn Orr overseeing the city's bankruptcy and finances.

Shopowners have been ticketed and fined if graffiti was not removed within 7 days and several vandals have been charged with felonies including destruction of property.

[23][24][25] In the 2017 Detroit mayoral election, Duggan was re-elected in a landslide, taking 72% of the vote to challenger Coleman Young II's 27%.

In the spring of 2018, the city of Detroit was released from state oversight, giving its municipal government full control over its operations for the first time in four decades.

[19] Duggan encountered a controversy after, in December 2019, the Detroit Office of the Inspector found that three top municipal officials, including his chief of staff Alexis Wiley, had ordered public employees to erase emails having to do with to the nonprofit organization Make Your Date.

[34] Duggan, when questioned about issues with the vaccine rollout, blamed the failures largely on the federal government.

[33] In February 2021, Duggan went to Washington D.C. to meet with other state and local leaders and President Joe Biden to discuss the responses to the pandemic.

[35] In December 2021, Duggan led efforts to demolish the abandoned former American Motors Headquarters building.

Mayor Duggan and other city Council Members developed a $203 million plan to provide affordable housing for Detroit residents.

[44] Just recently, in October, the DHFF completed its second project in Midtown, which involved renovating a historic apartment building.

[49] If approved by the state legislature, a land value tax would go before Detroit voters for a citywide vote in order to be enacted.