Sara Brockington Bost

Sara Brockington Bost (born 1947) was the first female African-American to serve as Mayor of Irvington, New Jersey. She was the first African-American to head the Women Mayors Division of the United States Conference of Mayors. In 2003 she was sentenced to a year in prison for witness tampering.

In a plea deal in 2003, Bost pleaded guilty to the one charge of witness tampering, and the other charges were dropped. She was sentenced to a year in prison and served it at Federal Prison Camp, Alderson. In 2010 the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission fined her $27,000 for failing to file required campaign finance reports by the mandated deadline and for accepting campaign donations that exceeded New Jersey's statutory limits.

Bost has been a resident of Barnegat Township, New Jersey. Her husband, Fred M. Bost, died in 2021.