| Anne Marie DeCicco-Best | |
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| Assumed office December 4, 2000 |
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| Preceded by | Dianne Haskett |
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| Born | April 1964 |
| Spouse(s) | Tim Best |
Anne Marie DeCicco-Best (born April 1964) is the current (60th) mayor of London, Ontario, Canada.
DeCicco graduated from Fanshawe College's broadcast journalism program in 1986 and worked for CHYR in Leamington, Ontario, before returning in 1987 to work at CJBK and CJBX, a country music station in London as a reporter covering city hall. She also later taught at Fanshawe.
DeCicco was first elected to London City Council in 1991 as a councillor in Ward Five, becoming the youngest person ever to serve there, after former Ward Five councillor Grant Hopcroft made the jump to the Board of Control.
In 1996 she was an avid supporter of London's bid for the 2001 Canada Summer Games, which were subsequently awarded to London. In 1997, after two, three-year terms as a ward councillor, she topped the polls when she was elected to the London Board of Control and acted as deputy mayor and budget chief to Dianne Haskett, whom she succeeded as mayor in the 2000 election. She was re-elected to a second term in 2003.
She also serves on the board of governors of the University of Western Ontario (UWO) and the London Police Services Board.
On June 17, 2006, DeCicco married Tim Best, a 44-year-old Texan that she first met at the John Labatt Centre in downtown London during the 2005 Memorial Cup hockey championship. Best was later charged with drunk driving, an incident which caused much public embarrassment for the mayor.
On November 13, 2006, DeCicco-Best was re-elected for a third consecutive term as the mayor of London. Her main opponent was former London North-Centre Liberal Member of Parliament Joe Fontana. Her victory in this election, with its four-year term mandated by the province of Ontario, will make DeCicco-Best the longest-serving (consecutive year) mayor in London's history, at 10 years in a row.
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