Susan Thompson

{{Short description|40th mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba}}

{{distinguish|Susanna Thompson|Susan Thompson Buffett}}

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| office =40th Mayor of Winnipeg

| term_start =1992

| term_end =1998

| predecessor =Bill Norrie

| successor =Glen Murray

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Susan Ann Thompson {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OM}} was the 40th mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was born on 12 April 1947.{{Cite web|url=http://winnipeginfocus.winnipeg.ca/susan-thompson-man|title=Thompson, Susan A. - Winnipeg in Focus|website=winnipeginfocus.winnipeg.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-03-03}} She was the first and first to date only woman to serve as mayor of Winnipeg, serving two terms from 1992 to 1998.{{cite news|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/thompson-bears-scars-from-her-time-in-office-92945739.html|title=Thompson bears scars from her time in office|last=Reynolds|first=Lindor|date=5 June 2010|work=Winnipeg Free Press|accessdate=23 April 2012}}{{cite book|last1=Razin|first1=Eran|last2=Smith|first2=Patrick J.|title=Metropolitan Governing: Canadian Cases, Comparative Lessons|url=https://archive.org/details/metropolitangove00smit|url-access=registration|accessdate=23 April 2012|year=2006|publisher=University of Alberta|isbn=9789654932851|pages=[https://archive.org/details/metropolitangove00smit/page/132 132]–}}

Thompson graduated with a BA from the University of Winnipeg in 1971. Thompson worked at Eaton's and Hudson's Bay Company in Winnipeg, Calgary, and Montreal. Because of her father's decline in health, she came back to Winnipeg in 1980 and bought the family's business Birt Saddlery. While running Birt Saddlery, she worked hard to promote women in business and became involved in Rotary and the Chamber of Commerce.

Thompson's second term saw the 1997 Flood of the Century; she was instrumental in directing the fight against the raging river. She choose not to seek a third term, but in 1999 she became Canada's Consul General in Minneapolis, United States - the first woman to have this position in its thirty years of existence. In this role she steadfastly promoted Canadian business and political interests. In 2003, she became first and founding president and CEO of the University of Winnipeg Foundation. She remained in this position until 2011.

In 2014, Thompson made local headlines after a 30-minute speech she gave to the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce. In it she outlined her ideas for the city's future which included a laser pyramid Portage and Main.{{cite news|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/is-that-winnipeg-under-a-laser-beam-240976701.html|title=Is that Winnipeg under a laser beam? Ex-mayor Thompson has some interesting ideas|last=Kives|first=Bartley|date=18 January 2014|work=Winnipeg Free Press|accessdate=19 October 2014}}

In 2017, a building at the Winnipeg City Hall Campus was renamed the Susan A. Thompson Building after her.{{cite web|url=http://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg-building-renamed-for-city-s-first-female-mayor-1.3471539 |title=Winnipeg building renamed for city’s first female mayor | CTV News Winnipeg |publisher=Winnipeg.ctvnews.ca |date=2017-06-19 |accessdate=2017-06-23}}

The City of Winnipeg Archives has the [https://winnipeginfocus.winnipeg.ca/f00037 Susan Thompson Fonds] including of textual records, photograph albums, framed memorabilia, and artifacts.