Kay Barnes

Kay Waldo Barnes (born as Kay Cronkite, March 30, 1938, St. Joseph, Missouri) is an American politician and the former two term Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri. She is a Democratic Party member. Barnes was the first female mayor of Kansas City from May 1999 until May 2007. She is the cousin of the famous journalist Walter Cronkite
Barnes was the Democratic nominee for Missouri's 6th congressional district under the United States House of Representatives in the 2008 election against the Republican incumbent Sam Graves.
In 1974, Barnes was one of the first two women with the Jackson County Legislature. She was elected to the Kansas City Council in 1979.