Mayor of Timaru

The mayor of Timaru is the directly elected head of the Timaru District Council, the local government authority for the Timaru District in New Zealand, which it controls as a territorial authority.

List of officeholders

There have been 40 mayors since the formation of the Timaru Borough Council in 1868. The current mayor is Nigel Bowen, who was first elected in the 2019 local elections.

	Name	Term	Notes
1	Samuel Hewlings	1868–1870
2	Henry Cain	1870–1873
3	George Cliff	1873–1875
4	James Sutter	1875–1876
	George Cliff	1876–1879	second term
	James Sutter	1879–1882	second term
5	John Jackson	1882–1886
6	Moss Jonas	1886–1888
7	David Mitchell Ross	1888–1891
8	Andrew Sherratt	1891–1893
9	Jacob Hill	1893–1896
10	John James Grandi	1896–1898
11	James Stephen Keith	1898–1899
12	John Hole	1899–1901
13	Charles Macintosh	1901–1902
14	James Craigie	1902–1912
15	Tom Hawkey	1912–1913
16	William Angland	1913–1914
17	Edwin Rowland Guinness	1914–1917
18	James Maling	1917–1919
19	William Chute Raymond	1919–1921
20	Frank Rolleston	1921–1923
21	George John Wallace	1923–1929
	William Angland	1929–1931	second term
22	Thomas W. Satterthwaite	1931–1936
23	Percy Vinnell	1936–1938	died 1938
24	Percy Barnes Foote	1938
25	William Glenholme Tweedy	1938–1942
26	Stanley Hanan	1942–1950	died in office
27	William Leslie Richards	1950–1953
28	Ronald Erle White	1953–1959	OBE
29	Muriel Hilton	1959–1962	née Venn; MBE
30	Charles Edward Thomson	1962–1965
31	Durham Robert Dowell	1965–1971	resigned
32	Sydney Raymond "Ray" Bennett	1971	MNZM
33	Charles Russell Hervey	1971–1977	QSO
	Sydney Raymond "Ray" Bennett	1977–1982	second term
34	Helene McIver	1982–1986	née Denford; MBE
35	Dave Walker	1986–1989
36	Archie Houstoun	1989–1992	MBE
37	Wynne Raymond	1992–2004
38	Janie Annear	2004–2013	ONZM
39	Damon Odey	2013–2019
40	Nigel Bowen	2019–present