Mattie Parker

Mattie Parker (born November 9, 1983) is an American attorney, business owner and politician serving as the 45th Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas. She was elected in 2021 after serving as Chief of Staff for the Mayor and the Fort Worth City Council for five years. She is one of the youngest mayors of a major American city in U.S. history. After coming in second place in the first round of voting in May, Parker faced off against Deborah Peoples, the Tarrant County Democratic Party chair, in the run-off election on June 5, 2021. Parker received 53.5% of the vote in the nominally non-partisan election. In Fort Worth, mayors are elected to two-year terms. Parker succeeded Betsy Price, who was elected to five consecutive terms as mayor, including the 2019 election, in which Price also defeated Peoples. Price opted to not run for a sixth term in 2021 and endorsed Parker, her former chief of staff. Before serving as the chief of staff for her predecessor Betsy Price, she was on the Fort Worth city council from 2015 until 2020. Early life and education Parker was born Mattie Jean Pearcy in Hico, Texas, about 80 miles southwest of Fort Worth. She graduated from Hico High School in 2002 before heading to the University of Texas at Austin, where she graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor's of Arts in government. In 2012, Parker graduated from the Texas Wesleyan University School of Law with a Juris Doctor and, in 2013, was admitted to the State Bar of Texas. Parker was in Texas Wesleyan's final graduating class before the law school was sold and became the Texas A&M University School of Law in 2013. As a law student, she was awarded the MacLean & Boulware Endowed Law Scholarship. Family Mattie Parker is a wife and mother. She is married to David Parker who she had three children with, two sons and one daughter. Her husband David Parker works as a registered lobbyist and director at North Texas Governmental Affairs Operations.