Fifty years ago, Janet Gray Hayes was the first woman elected mayor of a major U.S. city.
The San Jose City Hall Rotunda has been named after former Mayor Janet Gray Hayes, who was the first woman elected mayor of a major U.S. city in 1974. San Jose City Councilmember Pam Foley summed up the situation well at a celebration this week to name the San Jose City Hall Rotunda after former Mayor Janet Gray Hayes: “What took so long?”
And while it took a half-century to recognize Hayes, who died in 2014 at age 87, it all came together rather quickly once the ball started rolling. A committee that included Barbara Krause, Sarah Janigian, David Pandori, Gloria Chun Hoo, Terry Christensen, Margie Matthews and Janet Gray’s daughter Megan Hayes lobbied the city council with the idea, which was approved in August.
Alan Hicks, great-grandson of J.C. Ainsley, stands in front of the historic building on Harrison Avenue in Campbell that will become Ainsley’s Spout House on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. “Part of what makes it so unique is we have the connection to the Ainsley House and that history,” Hicks said. “There’s going to be a lot of history connecting the early canning days to the Silicon Valley of today.”
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