Rhodes-Conway, Satya, 1971-

Satya Rhodes-Conway (born November 3, 1971) is an American politician. She was a member of the Madison Common Council between 2007 and 2013. In 2019, Rhodes-Conway was elected Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin. She is the first out lesbian and first openly LGBTQ person elected to that office, and only the second woman to hold the post.

Born in Española, New Mexico, and raised in Ithaca, New York, she earned a B.S. degree from Smith College and an M.S. degree from the University of California, Irvine. Moving to Madison, Wisconsin in 2002, she worked at the State Environmental Resource Center, as a senior associate with the University of Wisconsin's Center on Wisconsin Strategy, and served on several municipal committees, as chair of the Long Range Metro Transit Ad Hoc Planning Committee, and a subcommittee member of the Commission on the Environment. Rhodes-Conway became managing director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Mayors Innovation Project in 2005. In 2007, she became one of nine new alders elected to the Madison Common Council and served three terms there before stepping down.

In 2019, Rhodes-Conway was elected Mayor of Madison. Her administration is focused on affordable housing, rapid transit, climate change and racial equity. She has extensive experience in local policy and practice, having worked with mayors across the country for over a decade. Mayor Rhodes-Conway is a co-chair of Climate Mayors, an appointed member of EPA's Local Government Advisory Committee, a founding member of Mayors for a Guaranteed Income and a member of Mayors Against Gun Violence. She serves on various committees and task forces for the US Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities.