DETROIT – Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield was publicly sworn in Friday morning.
Detroit’s city council, commissioners and clerk were also sworn in at the investiture ceremony on Jan. 9 at the Detroit Opera House.
Sheffield spoke after she was sworn into office, thanking her family, former Mayor Mike Duggan and the people of Detroit.
“Today we begin a new chapter,” Sheffield said in her first formal speech as mayor on Friday. “I gratefully accept the trust that you all have placed in me, and I embrace the responsibility of this historic moment. But this moment does not belong to one person. It belongs to every neighborhood in this city, from the east side to the west side, to southwest Detroit, to every first responder and every essential worker, to parents working hard every single day, to our brothers and sisters in labor, to our seniors and our retirees and to the children of Detroit, watching this moment unfold from classrooms and their homes, seeing what is possible when a city believes in itself and in its future, Detroit, we reach this moment together. You are the reason that we are here today. I say, thank you. Thank you, Detroit.”
Sheffield is Detroit’s 76th mayor and is the first woman to hold the office.
You can watch the full investiture ceremony below: