Susan J. Scher

Place: Albany

Biography:

Susan Scher, also known as Susan J. Scher, was born in Albany, New York in approximately 1946. She is a politician and the first woman to become Mayor of Savannah, Georgia. She was a Republican and served as Mayor from 1992 to 1995. Scher ran for Mayor in 1991 and defeated five-term incumbent John Rousakis with 54% of the votes. She conducted a law and order campaign and advocated for privatizing some city services. Under her tenure, six council members were Democrats and only two were Republicans. She abandoned most proposals from her platform and was narrowly defeated by Floyd Adams Jr. in 1995. After her tenure as Mayor, Scher worked as a trainer for the Coverdell Leadership Institute from 1996 to 2004 and as executive director of the Georgia Council for the Arts from 2004 to 2012. She died from complications of cancer in Gainesville, Georgia on August 11, 2012 at the age of 66.