{{Short description|American politician (born 1936)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | order = | office = Mayor of Annapolis | term_start = December 3, 2001<ref name="capgazette">{{cite news |first=Jeff |last=Horseman |title=Changing of the guard in Annapolis: It's now Mayor Moyer |url=http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/013700/013711/html/cap4dec01.html |newspaper=The Capital |date=2001-12-04 |accessdate=2015-03-04 |via=Maryland State Archives}}</ref> | term_end = December 7, 2009 | predecessor = Dean Johnson | successor = Josh Cohen | office1 = Alderman, Annapolis City Council<ref name="capgazette" /> | term_start1 = 1987 | term_end1 = 2001 | alongside1 = | predecessor1 = | successor1 = | birth_name = Ellen Louise Oosterling | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1936|2|12}} <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = Camden, New Jersey, U.S. | party = Democratic<ref>{{cite web |title=Annapolis Mayors, Maryland - Government |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/37mun/annapolis/mayors/former/html/amayors.html |website=Maryland Manual On-Line |publisher=Maryland State Archives |accessdate=April 13, 2020 |date=December 4, 2017}}</ref> | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Roger Moyer| |1973|end=div}} * {{marriage|Tom Conroy|1979|December 4, 2002|end=died}} }} | children = Five children; five grandchildren | education = | alma_mater = Penn State University, B.A., 1958<ref name="PSL" /> | occupation = | profession = | website = <!-- {{Official website|URL}} --> }}
'''Ellen Oosterling Moyer''' (born February 12, 1936) is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party. She was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Annapolis, Maryland, having been elected in 2001. As mayor, she established the Annapolis Conservancy Board and the city's Greenscape program.
==Biography== Moyer was born '''Ellen Louise Oosterling''' to parents Henry John Oosterling and Mina (Johnson) Oosterling in Camden, New Jersey. She was raised in Towson, Maryland, and later attended Penn State University. She has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Towson High School and Penn State's Board of Trustees recognized her with the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007.<ref name="PSL">{{Cite web |url=http://live.psu.edu/story/21838 |title=Seven named to receive Distinguished Alumni Awards |website=Penn State Live |publisher=Penn State University |access-date=2007-01-24 |date=2007-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525144153/http://live.psu.edu/story/21838 |archive-date=2011-05-25 |url-status=dead}}</ref> She married Roger Moyer, former mayor of Annapolis, and had five children with him. Ellen divorced Roger in 1973 and remarried to Tom Conroy (d. December 4, 2002) in 1979.
Prior to serving as mayor, Moyer was a member of the Annapolis city council (1987–2001) and the Maryland Racing Commission (1999–2003). She also taught a year of fifth-grade in Baltimore County, Maryland, served as executive director of the Maryland Commission for Women in the late 1970s, as a lobbyist of the Maryland Teacher's Association, and as a member of the Strategic Committee on the State Plan for Higher Education (1999–2000).
In May 2025, Moyer announced her candidacy for Alderman of Ward 6.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.eyeonannapolis.net/2025/05/former-annapolis-mayor-ellen-moyer-announces-run-for-ward-6-alderwoman-seat/ |title=Former Annapolis Mayor Ellen Moyer Announces Run for Ward 6 Alderwoman |date=May 28, 2025 |access-date=May 30, 2025 |website=Eye On Annapolis}}</ref>
== Personal life == Ellen Moyer has four sons, Guy, John, Michael and Steven, and one daughter, Loni Moyer. She has five grandchildren. Loni Moyer was elected to the Annapolis Democratic Central Committee<ref>{{cite news |last1=Crawford |first1=Amanda J. |title=From the first lady of Annapolis to its first female mayor |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2001-11-11-0111110108-story.html |accessdate=April 13, 2020 |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=November 11, 2001}}</ref> in the 2001 election and is seeking appointment to a vacant Maryland House of Delegates seat in 2020.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sanchez |first1=Olivia |title=Nineteen locals, including two Annapolis City Council aldermen, vie for open delegation seat vacated by Alice Cain |url=https://www.capitalgazette.com/politics/ac-cn-meet-the-candidates-d30a-20200412-20200412-kzhw3ccldneodjorpuuujd3seq-story.html |accessdate=April 13, 2020 |work=The Capital |date=April 12, 2020}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} * {{cite web |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/013700/013711/html/13711bio.html |title=Ellen O. Moyer, MSA SC 3520-13711 |website=msa.maryland.gov |publisher=Maryland State Archives |accessdate=April 13, 2020 |date=December 7, 2009}}
{{s-start}} {{succession box | before = Dean Johnson | title = Mayor of Annapolis | years = 2001–2009 | after = Joshua J. Cohen}} {{s-end}}
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