Editing Pontiac, Michigan (section)

==== Mayoral history ====
[[Wallace E. Holland]] (1974–1986 and 1990–1994) was the first African American elected as Mayor of Pontiac, and the first directly elected Mayor following the adoption of the revised Pontiac City Charter in 1982.

[[Deirdre Holloway Waterman]], was an ophthalmologist who was elected as Pontiac's first female mayor by more than 68% of the vote on November 5, 2013.<ref name="waterman">{{cite web |title=Deirdre Waterman takes Pontiac mayorship in landslide (with video) |url=http://www.theoaklandpress.com/general-news/20131106/deirdre-waterman-takes-pontiac-mayorship-in-landslide-with-video |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115004139/http://www.theoaklandpress.com/general-news/20131106/deirdre-waterman-takes-pontiac-mayorship-in-landslide-with-video |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 15, 2013 |access-date=2016-11-27 |website=Theoaklandpress.com}}</ref> She was re-elected in 2017 with 57% of the vote. Her late husband, William Waterman, was a prominent attorney in the community who was appointed in 1988 by Michigan Governor James Blanchard to the District Court in Pontiac and elected multiple times to continue serving; he died in office in 2003. The District Courthouse was renamed in his honor, the William J. Waterman Hall of Justice. Then-incumbent Mayor Deirdre Waterman was removed from the August primary ballot due to unresolved campaign finance violations, but continued as a write-in candidate in the primary election. She was not successful in that effort.

In November 2021, [[Tim Greimel]], who previously served as a Michigan State Representative and Oakland County Commissioner in districts that included Pontiac, was elected Mayor in the general election. He won with 61.66% of votes, while his general election opponent Alexandria T. Riley received 37.50% of the vote. Riley, a frequent candidate for office in Pontiac, previously served as a city employee under Mayor Deirdre Waterman and more recent worked for the Genesee County Land Bank Authority.