Mayor David Holt

Mayor David Holt became Oklahoma City’s 38^th mayor in 2018. He was elected in 2018 with 78.5 percent of the vote, the largest percentage achieved by a non-incumbent since 1947. In 2022, he was re-elected with more votes than any candidate for Mayor since 1959. Holt is the first Native American mayor of Oklahoma City. At the time he took office, Holt was the youngest mayor of Oklahoma City since 1923 and the youngest mayor of a U.S. city with more 500,000 residents. For more about Mayor Holt, click here.

To watch or read Mayor Holt's most recent State of the City address, click here.

To watch Mayor Holt's remarks regarding the 25th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, click here. 

The Mayor of Oklahoma City is the “Chief Executive of the City” and “President of the Council,” according to the Oklahoma City Charter. The Mayor is the only person elected citywide, is a voting member of the City Council and presides over its meetings, makes appointments to boards and commissions, represents the City at home and around the nation and world, articulates a vision for the City, leads major initiatives, issues proclamations, delivers an annual State of the City address, and with the Council hires the City Manager, the Municipal Counselor, the City Auditor and municipal judges.

For a list of the nearly 60 boards to which Mayor Holt makes appointments and his nearly 500 mayoral appointees, click here.

For more information about the previous Mayors of Oklahoma City, click here.