Ann Womer Benjamin

Ann Womer Benjamin is the mayor of Aurora, Ohio, a position she has held since 2014. She is former executive director of the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education. Womer Benjamin served in the cabinet of the former Governor of Ohio Bob Taft as director of the Ohio Department of Insurance. Prior to that appointment, she was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1995–2002. She represented a district which encompassed Portage County. She practiced law with Black McCuskey Souers and Arbaugh in Canton, Ohio and then with the former national law firm of Arter and Hadden in Cleveland, Ohio.

She served four terms in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1995 to 2002. During her term, she sponsored bills on student loans, crime victims' reparations, rape, finance reform, trust law, and welfare reform. She won the position in a six-way race with 34.58 percent of the vote and has been re-elected twice. She became the third woman mayor of Aurora, Ohio.

Governor Mike DeWine appointed Womer Benjamin to the Kent State Board of Trustees in 2019. She also serves on the board of the National First Ladies Library.