Mayor Moore takes office

History made, now its down to business

After being sworn in as Statesboro's first female mayor and presiding over the first City Council meeting of the year at City Hall Tuesday, Jan Moore, right, is congratulated by Faye Sanders Martin, the first woman to be appointed as a Georgia Superior Court Judge.

W 010714 MOORE MAYOR 01 — After being sworn in as Statesboro's first female mayor and presiding over the first City Council meeting of the year at City Hall Tuesday, Jan Moore, right, is congratulated by Faye Sanders Martin, the first woman to be appointed as a Georgia Superior Court Judge.

At 9 a.m. on the coldest day so far this winter, Statesboro's elected city government ceased to be an all-boys club. Founded in 1803, incorporated in 1866 and now with 29,779 people (2012 U.S. Census estimate), Statesboro never before had a woman mayor. As far back as anyone interviewed remembered, no woman had even been elected to City Council, and the council remained all male when Jan Moore was sworn in as mayor Tuesday.

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