Kate Gallego is an American politician serving as the 62nd mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served on the Phoenix City Council from 2014 to 2018.

Born Katharine Sarah Widland, Gallego grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her parents are attorneys who moved to Albuquerque from Chicago after the 1979 Chicago blizzard. She grew up with asthma, which made air quality important to her. Gallego is Jewish, celebrating her bat mitzvah in Albuquerque.

While attending Harvard, Kate met Ruben Gallego at a charity auction following the September 11 attacks. They moved to Phoenix in 2004, and married in 2010. The couple announced their divorce in 2016, prior to the birth of their child, Michael. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Sources

• "Kate Gallego." Wikipedia, revision of 28 September 2024.
• "Ruben Gallego & Katharine S. Widland." New Mexico, Bernalillo County Marriages via MyHeritage. < link > Accessed 20 October 2024.