Annette Blackwell is the current Mayor of Maple Heights as well as Director of Safety, and has been widely praised for turning the city’s fiscal health around. Moving to Ohio from Selma, Alabama at the age of 2, she became a leader in her community. Along with her public service, she has long-time private sector experience, including at Key Bank (formerly Ameritrust), University Hospitals, and and 16 years at Deloitte and Ryan where she focused largely on property tax issues.
Now Mayor Blackwell is running for Ohio Auditor to ensure local communities and government can provide safe and affordable places to live for Ohio’s working families, fight the corruption that’s plaguing Ohio’s government, and safeguard our tax dollars by holding bad actors accountable.
When Mayor Blackwell was first elected to lead Maple Heights, the city was in fiscal emergency and on the state’s “fiscal watch” list. She turned her living room into a war room, poured over the financials and literally wrote the five year plan that turned the city’s finances around. Because of her work, The City of Maple Heights has received the State of Ohio Auditor’s most prestigious award, the Clean Audit Award every year from 2021-2023. Maple Heights proudly was recognized as being one of the State of Ohio’s best partners.
Mayor Blackwell looks forward to taking her public and private sector experience, determination and fiscal discipline to the Ohio Auditor’s office because she knows that with costs rising on so many everyday goods and services the last thing we need is our tax dollars being wasted. She will also continue to be a voice against the endless raid of local government funds by Statehouse politicians.
Mayor Blackwell lives in Maple Heights with her husband, and together they are the proud parents of three children.
