Jane Robbins (mayor)
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Jane Robbins serves as the current mayor
of Pine City
, Minnesota
, which is located in Pine County
just north of the Twin Cities
metropolitan area and south of Duluth
. The first woman to hold the position, Robbins was first elected mayor in 1992 and has been re-elected every two years since then. She is the longest-serving mayor in the city's history.
In 2008, Robbins was selected to receive the CC Ludwig Award, Minnesota's highest honor for an elected official and in 2010, she was selected to receive the Minnesota Women In City Government Leadership Award.
Mayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
of Pine City
Pine City, Minnesota
Pine City is a city in Pine County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 3,123 at the 2010 census. Pine City is the county seat of, and the largest city in, Pine County...
, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
, which is located in Pine County
Pine County, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 26,530 people, 9,939 households, and 6,917 families residing in the county. The population density was 19 people per square mile . There were 15,353 housing units at an average density of 11 per square mile...
just north of the Twin Cities
Twin cities
Twin cities are a special case of two cities or urban centres which are founded in close geographic proximity and then grow into each other over time...
metropolitan area and south of Duluth
Duluth, Minnesota
Duluth is a port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Saint Louis County. The fourth largest city in Minnesota, Duluth had a total population of 86,265 in the 2010 census. Duluth is also the second largest city that is located on Lake Superior after Thunder Bay, Ontario,...
. The first woman to hold the position, Robbins was first elected mayor in 1992 and has been re-elected every two years since then. She is the longest-serving mayor in the city's history.
In 2008, Robbins was selected to receive the CC Ludwig Award, Minnesota's highest honor for an elected official and in 2010, she was selected to receive the Minnesota Women In City Government Leadership Award.