Former Mayors

On the 15^th May 1980 during the Chairmanship of Kenneth D. Redfern, the Council was granted a Charter conferring on the District the status of Borough, thus entitling the Chairman of the Council to the style of Mayor.

Name (click to sort)	Year of Office (click to sort)
Cllr Alan E. Jones (Deceased)	1980
Cllr Patricia K Wilson (Deceased)	1981
Cllr Robert J Smith (Deceased)	1982
Cllr Betty Passingham (Deceased)	1983
Cllr R. David Watton (Deceased)	1984
Cllr William G Lock (Deceased)	1985
Cllr Arthur F Price	1985
Cllr Walter J Stranz (Deceased)	1986
Cllr Ronald W Passingham	1987
Cllr Clive J Cheetham	1988
Cllr Ken Smith	1989
Cllr K Joan Tyers	1990
Cllr Madge M. Tillsley MBE	1991
Cllr David R. Cartwright	1992
Cllr Ken Somner (Deceased)	1993
Cllr Doug Baddeley (Deceased)	1994
Cllr Anne Davis	1995
Cllr Roy Vickers	1996
Cllr Iris Beech	1997
Cllr Andrew Fry	1998
Cllr John Witherspoon	1999
Cllr Mark Shurmer	2000
Cllr Dot Dudley	2001
Cllr Steve Wheeler	2002
Cllr Keith Boyd-Carpenter (Deceased)	2003
Cllr Jack Cookson (Deceased)	2004
Cllr Diane Thomas	2005
Cllr Michael Chalk	2006
Cllr David Hunt	2007
Cllr Jack Field (Deceased)	2008
Cllr Malcolm Hall	2009
Cllr Kath Banks	2010
Cllr Anita Clayton	2011
Cllr Alan Mason	2012
Cllr Wanda King	2013
Cllr Pat Witherspoon	2014
Cllr Pattie Hill (Deceased)	2015
Cllr Joe Baker	2016
Cllr Jenny Wheeler	2017
Cllr Juliet Brunner	2018
Cllr Roger Bennett	2019
Cllr Michael Chalk	2020
Cllr Gareth Prosser (Deceased)	2021
Cllr Ann Isherwood	2022

Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Redditch

Mr W Stranz - Admitted 1994 (Deceased 2005)

The Mercian Regiment - Admitted 2009