Wagnon, Joan Davis, 1940-

Joan Davis Wagnon (born October 17, 1940) is a retired American politician.

Born in Texarkana, Texas, she graduated from Arkansas High School there before earning a degree from Hendrix College. Thereafter, she worked as a senior research assistant in the Neurology Department at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. Afterward, she moved to Columbia, Missouri and Topeka, Kansas, serving as executive director of the Topeka YWCA for 13 years.

Wagnon was elected to the Kansas State Legislature in 1982 and served until 1995, leaving her seat to run in the 1994 Democratic gubernatorial primary where she finished second in a field of five. She was elected mayor of Topeka in 1997 and led the city until 2001, losing her bid for re-election. Wagnon entered banking for several years, and in 2003, was appointed by then-Governor of Kansas Kathleen Sebelius to serve as the Secretary of Revenue, where she remained until 2011.