The Glendale City Council has selected Councilmember Joyce Clark to serve as vice mayor for 2023.

Clark has served on the city council on three different occasions, beginning in 1992.

As vice mayor, she will be responsible for performing the duties of Glendale’s mayor during the mayor’s absence. She will serve in this position for one year. Clark also served as vice mayor in 2019.

“I am honored and pleased to once again have been chosen by the city council to serve as Glendale’s vice mayor,” the 50-year Glendale resident shared in a statement. “I am so proud to serve the residents of the Yucca District and our city each day. This is not a role I will take lightly.”

Clark was elected as the first Yucca District councilmember in 1992, and served Glendale and the district from 1992 to 1996. She took a four-year break from public service to tend to a personal family matter.

In 2000 she successfully ran again for Yucca District councilmember as a write-in candidate against the incumbent. After a brief retirement in 2012, Clark won reelection as the Yucca District councilmember in 2016.

She is the only elected official in Arizona to have defeated an incumbent as a write-in candidate and to have subsequently defeated a second incumbent. In total, Clark has served the city for 22 years.

Clark also currently serves on the Arizona League of Cities and Towns Budget and Finance Committee.