{{Short description|American politician (born 1949)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Mark Stodola | image = Mark Stodola 2011.jpeg | image_size = 190px | order = | office = 72nd Mayor of Little Rock | term_start = January 3, 2007 | term_end = December 31, 2018 | predecessor = Jim Dailey | successor = Frank Scott Jr. | order1 = 92nd | office1 = President of the National League of Cities | term1 = 2018 | predecessor1 = Matt Zone | successor1 = Karen Freeman-Wilson | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|5|18}} | birth_place = Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S. | alma_mater = University of Iowa<br>University of Arkansas | profession = Attorney | party = Democratic | spouse = Jo Ellen Stodola | children = 3 }}
'''Mark Stodola''' (born May 18, 1949) is an American politician and lawyer who served as mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas from 2006 to 2018.
==Mayoralty== First elected in 2006, Stodola served as the mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas, from January 2007 through December 2018. Stodola won re-election to a second, four-year term in November 2010 by a landslide 84.73 percent of the vote.<ref name=uscm>{{cite news |first=David W. |last=Burns |title=Mayoral Elections Bring Mix of New Faces, Incumbents |url=http://www.usmayors.org/usmayornewspaper/documents/11_08_10/pg1_mayoral_elections.asp |work=United States Conference of Mayors |date=8 November 2012 |access-date=19 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204163442/http://www.usmayors.org/usmayornewspaper/documents/11_08_10/pg1_mayoral_elections.asp |archive-date=4 December 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His re-election in 2014 was unopposed.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Brantley|first1=Max|title=Mayor Stodola ends campaign season with $100,000 kitty|url=http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2014/12/29/mayor-stodola-ends-campaign-season-with-100000-kitty|access-date=28 June 2015|work=Arkansas Blog|publisher=Arkansas Times|date=29 December 2014}}</ref> Stodola served as president of the National League of Cities in 2018.<ref name="NLCpresidents1">{{cite web |title=Past Presidents of the National League of Cities |url=https://www.nlc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/NLC-Past-Presidents-List.pdf |publisher=National League of Cities |access-date=13 August 2025 |date=June 2023}}</ref>
==Family== Stodola is married to his wife Jo Ellen and together they have 3 children: one daughter named Allison and twin sons named John Mark and Robert.<ref name=Mark>{{cite web|title=Arkansas Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola|url=http://www.littlerock.org/mayorsoffice/|publisher=City of Little Rock|access-date=14 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121212174804/http://www.littlerock.org/MayorsOffice/|archive-date=12 December 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Organizations== Stodola is currently a member of the Rotary Club in Little Rock. Stodola graduated from the Leadership Greater Little Rock, and has also served as Chair of Class 16 for the same program. He is also a member of the Heights Neighborhood Association and serves as Co-Chair of the Downtown Partnership's Main Street Task Force. Stodola has made time to serve on the Board of the Arkansas Repertory Theatre and is Past-President of the Quapaw Quarter Association and the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas. Lastly, the mayor has worked with the Big Brothers Big Sisters program.<ref name=Mark />
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20121212174804/http://www.littlerock.org/MayorsOffice/ Little Rock Mayor's Office: Mayor Mark Stodola]
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