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Pam Iorio
Pam Iorio, at her inauguration in April 2003.
Order	57th Mayor of Tampa
Term of Office	2003–present
Predecessor	Dick A. Greco
Successor	incumbent
Date of Birth	April 27, 1959
Place of Birth	Waterville, Maine
First Man	Mark Woodard
Profession	Politician
City Attorney	David Smith
City Clerk	Shirley Foxx-Knowles
Political Party	Democrat

Pam Iorio (born April 27, 1959 in Waterville, Maine) is the 57th and current (as of 2007) mayor of Tampa, Florida. She moved with her family to Temple Terrace as an infant.

Her first term dealt largely with renovating the downtown area, as well as creating economic confidence for poorer citizens of the city. Iorio is also a big supporter of the arts, and she wishes to make Tampa a major arts center in the South. Iorio has also been credited with a sharp drop in drug trafficking in the city limits. In her second term, Iorio will continue to be a supporter for a light rail mass transit system for the city.

In 1985, at the age of 26, she became the youngest person ever elected to the Hillsborough County Commission. For a decade before her successful run for mayor, she served as Supervisor of Elections for Hillsborough County. During the 2000 presidential election recount, she was the president of the State Association of County Elections Supervisors.

She earned her bachelor's degree from American University and followed up with her master's at the University of South Florida, while she was Supervisor of Elections.

She was sworn in on April 1, 2003, succeeding Dick A. Greco. Her campaign was notable in that she decided to run for mayor fairly late, yet still managed to win by a 2-to-1 margin over her opponent, Frank Sanchez. Iorio's administration was seen as breaking down the good ol' boy system that was in place for years; as the second female mayor of the city, she hired many more minorities and women for staff positions than her male predecessors.

She was re-elected to a second term on March 6, 2007, with 80% of the vote in citywide elections. Her opponents, former police chief Marion Serious Lewis and former fire chief Aria Green, received 14% and 6%, respectively. Despite the landslide win, voter turnout was at 15% across the city, down sharply from 33% in 2003.

Iorio has been married to Mark Woodard, assistant county administrator for Pinellas County, since 1987 (she did not take her husband's last name), and they have two children, Caitlin and Graham.

Her father John Iorio, an Italian immigrant who became a university professor, died on February 7, 2007 after a lengthy battle with cancer. [1]

• Pam Iorio profile
• Mayor's website, features a pictorial called "Going Places with Pam!"