Elizabeth "Betsy" A. Hodges (born September 7, 1969) is the Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, she represented Ward 13 on the Minneapolis City Council from January 2006 until January 2014. Hodges was reelected to the city council in the 2009 Minneapolis municipal elections.Hodges won the 2013 Minneapolis mayoral election and was inaugurated on January 2, 2014.