Mugasa Grace Mary

Grace Mary Mugasa (née Mugisa; born 28 December 1968) is a Ugandan politician who currently serves as the Minister of State, Office of the Prime Minister (in Charge of Bunyoro Affairs for Public Service. She was appointed on 26 May 2026, by the President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, assuming office on 8 June 2026. Grace Mary took office from David Karubanga, the former State Minister and Member of Parliament representing Kigorobya. Before this appointment, she served as Minister of State for Public Service and was the first female Mayor of Hoima Municipality, seeing it through its transition to City status in July 2020.

Background and education Grace Mary Mugasa was born in Munteme, Hoima District, Western Uganda in December, 1968 to Pascal and Regina Rukanyanga. She contested with three other candidates where Brian Kaboyo, the National Resistance Movement Flag bearer emerged as winner with 12,451 votes followed closely by Mugasa with 12,298 votes. The other candidates were Dan Kaija of Uganda People's Congress (UPC) who had 315 votes, Rashid Tumusiime of the National Unity Platform with 303 votes and Wyclif Tumusiime, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) who came last with 215 votes.

Grace is also one of the founders of the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM) in 2016 and was the second vice-chair of the GPM Executive Committee until her appointment as minister in June, 2021. She has also served as board member on various Boards: HOFOKAM Ltd (a microfinance company); Communications Board of Hoima Catholic Diocese; Millennium Business School; St. Andrea Kaahwa's College; Kitara Secondary School.

Personal life Grace Mary is married to Aloysius Mugasa Adyeeri, an Administrative Specialist and author, currently Chairman of Uganda's National Lotteries and Gaming Board - a position he held upon retiring as managing director of Uganda Kolping Society. She is a mother with grown children and grandchildren as well as a guardian to a number of orphans. Grace's interests are Gender equality, and clean environment. During her time as mayor, Hoima saw a transformation through rehabilitation of the Municipal/City headquarters as well as road construction with the support of the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID) program, funded by the World Bank-IDA's loan program.

As of March 2022, almost a year after her tenure, roads accredited to Grace Mary's requests towards the president and continuous lobbying were under construction in Hoima city. These included the roads leading to and around the major worship centres - Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral, Bujumbura, St. Peter's Cathedral, Duhaga and Bwikya mosque, Kinubi.