Prior to entering politics, McEnerny-Ogle spent 30 years as a public school teacher in
Lake Oswego, Oregon. In 2014, McEnerny-Ogle was elected to the Vancouver City Council. The first woman to be elected mayor of Vancouver, she was elected to succeed
Tim Leavitt in November 2017 for a term beginning January 1, 2018. She was endorsed in the race by
The Columbian, which noted her prior term on the city council since 2014. She was also on the Vancouver Planning Commission and several other local government boards. The mayoral office is officially
nonpartisan. ==See also==