Norman, Oklahoma

==Government==
[[File:Norman Municipal Complex.jpg|thumb|upright|City Office Buildings]]

A [[council-manager government]] has been in place in Norman since the adoption of its [[city charter]] on {{nowrap|June 28}}, 1919.<ref name="City Gov">{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.norman.ok.us/content/city-government |publisher=City of Norman |title=City Government |access-date=July 31, 2010 |archive-date=October 5, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101005064717/http://www.ci.norman.ok.us/content/city-government |url-status=dead }}</ref> A [[councillor|councilor]] from each of the city's eight council [[Wards of the United States|wards]] is elected to office every two years, each serving a two-year term. Councilors are elected from their own respective wards based on a [[plurality voting system]]; a councilor from each ward serves on the Norman [[City Council]]. A mayor is elected by the entire voting population of Norman and serves as an [[at-large]] councilor; the mayor serves a three-year term. As a whole, the council acts as the legislative body of city government; it aims to pass laws, approve the city budget, and manage efficiency in the government. The City Council appoints a professional [[City Manager]] who is responsible for the city's day-to-day administrative activities.<ref name="City Gov" /> The City of Norman has approximately 650 employees working in 11 departments and 31 boards and commissions that help oversee and implement the city's policies and services.<ref name="City Gov" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.norman.ok.us/content/boards-commissions |publisher=City of Norman |title=Boards & Commissions |access-date=July 31, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100803071751/http://www.ci.norman.ok.us/content/boards-commissions |archive-date=August 3, 2010 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> The City Council meets biweekly in [[City Hall]], at 201 W. Gray Street; various boards and commissions meet in accordance with their own schedules.<ref name="City Gov" /> The mayor is Larry Heikkila (elected in 2022),<ref name="Taylor">{{cite news |first=Jillian |last=Taylor |title=Larry Heikkila wins Norman mayoral seat, defeats incumbent Breea Clark |date=April 5, 2022 |access-date=October 14, 2022 |website=[[OU Daily]] |location=Norman, Oklahoma |url=https://www.oudaily.com/news/larry-heikkila-wins-norman-mayoral-seat-defeats-incumbent-breea-clark/article_c111714a-b52d-11ec-b816-078b126f5f32.html}}</ref> and the city manager is Darrel Pyle (appointed in 2019).<ref>{{cite news |work=[[The Norman Transcript]] |date=June 11, 2019 |first=Mack |last=Burke |title=Pyle named city manager |access-date=October 15, 2019 |url=https://www.normantranscript.com/news/local_news/pyle-named-city-manager/article_63eb1073-77bf-57af-895a-86ff273851c9.html}}</ref> In accordance with the charter of the city of Norman, all city elected positions are [[Non-partisan democracy|nonpartisan]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://library.municode.com/HTML/11352/level2/CH_ARTIICIOFEL.html |publisher=City of Norman |title=Article II, Section 11. – Partisan Designation Forbidden |access-date=January 9, 2012}}</ref>

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*Thomas B. Wagoner, circa 1889<ref>{{citation |url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/contents/v007toc.html |work=[[Chronicles of Oklahoma]] |publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society |volume=7 |number=3 |year=1929 |title=The First Two Years |author=Dan W. Peery |via=Oklahoma State University |access-date=August 25, 2017 |archive-date=August 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170826105346/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/contents/v007toc.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*Pryor Adkins, circa 1894<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.normanmuseum.org/uploads/1/8/4/8/18482356/good-winter-newsletter-1.pdf |title=Pryor V. Adkins Family and Entrepreneurship in Early Norman |work=The Round Tower |date=Spring 2015 |publisher=Cleveland County Historical Society |location=Norman}}</ref>
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*N.E. Sharp, circa 1912<ref>{{cite book |title=Oklahoma Red Book |year=1912 |location=Oklahoma City |chapter=Mayors and Clerks of Oklahoma |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KRM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA626 |author1=Oklahoma}}</ref>
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*T. Jack Foster, circa 1929<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.normanmuseum.org/uploads/1/8/4/8/18482356/summer-newsletter.pdf |title=T. Jack Foster: Mayor, President of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Guy Who Brought the Navy to Norman |work=The Round Tower |date=Winter 2015 |publisher=Cleveland County Historical Society |location=Norman}}</ref>
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*Al Fuzzell, circa 1952–1953<ref name=Graveyard>{{cite web |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/norman.html |title=Mayors of Norman, Oklahoma |editor=[[Lawrence Kestenbaum]] |work=[[Political Graveyard]] |access-date=April 17, 2017}}</ref>
*H. W. Masters, circa 1954<ref name=Graveyard /> 
*Jack Milton, circa 1955<ref name=Graveyard /> 
*James F. Long, circa 1956<ref name=Graveyard />
*June Tompkins Benson, 1957–1960<ref name=female2007>{{cite news |url=http://www.normantranscript.com/news/local_news/norman-s-first-female-mayor-remembered-as-statesman/article_dd1d63a0-ada1-5297-b74b-f90e88ee658b.html |first=Carol L. |last=Cole |title=Norman's first female mayor remembered as statesman |date=June 24, 2007 |work=[[The Norman Transcript]]}}</ref>
*Earl Sneed 1960–1965
*William S. Morgan, circa 1967<ref name=Graveyard />
*Gordon D. Masters 1969–1972
*Bill Nations, 1992–1998<ref>{{cite news |title=Bill Nations will speak on Norman Forward |date=November 25, 2016 |access-date=January 16, 2018 |website=[[The Norman Transcript]] |url=http://www.normantranscript.com/news/bill-nations-will-speak-on-norman-forward/article_498ce858-b339-11e6-be29-87f170710d0c.html}}</ref>
*Bob Thompson, 1998–2001<ref>{{cite news |first=Carol |last=Cole-Frowe |title='She's just too good' |date=January 19, 2008 |access-date=January 16, 2018 |website=[[The Norman Transcript]] |url=http://www.normantranscript.com/news/local_news/she-s-just-too-good/article_c6091bab-2692-5b87-a9fb-b8e0be402c6a.html}}</ref>
*Ron Henderson, 2001–2004<ref>{{cite news |title=Henderson announces candidacy for District 45 seat |date=May 17, 2008 |access-date=January 16, 2018 |website=[[The Norman Transcript]] |url=http://www.normantranscript.com/news/local_news/henderson-announces-candidacy-for-district-seat/article_3fb54960-e301-5a5f-a759-2c32a17dcd2e.html}}</ref>
*Harold Haralson, circa 2005
*Cindy Simon Rosenthal, circa 2007–2016<ref name=female2007 />
*Lynne Miller, 2016–2019<ref>{{cite news |first=Leighanne |last=Manwarren |title=Norman Residents Elect New Mayor, Pass Bond |date=April 5, 2016 |access-date=January 16, 2018 |website=[[KWTV-DT]] |location=Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |url=http://www.news9.com/story/31651999/norman-residents-elect-new-mayor-pass-bond}}</ref>
*Breea Clark, 2019–2022<ref>{{cite news |first=Beau |last=Anderson |title=Breea Clark sworn in as Norman Mayor |date=July 2, 2019 |access-date=November 1, 2019 |website=[[OU Daily]] |location=Norman, Oklahoma |url=http://www.oudaily.com/news/breea-clark-sworn-in-as-norman-mayor/article_d1629578-9d26-11e9-aac2-13f1d37d8693.html}}</ref>
*Larry Heikkila, 2022–present<ref name="Taylor"/>
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Municipal and state laws are enforced by the Norman Police Department.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.norman.ok.us/content/police-department |publisher=City of Norman |title=Norman Police Department |access-date=January 9, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104200609/http://www.ci.norman.ok.us/content/police-department |archive-date=January 4, 2012 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> The police department consists of up to 171 commissioned officers and 71 office employees and is Oklahoma's third-largest police department.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.normanok.gov/public-safety/police-department/about-npd |title=About the NPD |date=Fall 2022 |publisher=City of Norman |location=Norman}}</ref>

The city serves as the [[county seat]] of [[Cleveland County, Oklahoma|Cleveland County]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |publisher=National Association of Counties |title=Find a County |access-date=January 13, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=May 31, 2011 |df=mdy}}</ref>