Ellen Moyer was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Annapolis, Maryland, having been elected in 2001. She moved to Annapolis in the 1950s after graduating college to work for the Girls Scouts. As mayor, she established the Annapolis Conservancy Board and the city's Greenscape program. Moyer was raised in Towson, Maryland and graduated from Penn State University in 1958. She married Roger Pip
Moyer, former Mayor of Annapolis, and had five children with him, Guy, John Bumper,
Michael, Steven, and Loni. They divorced in 1973 and Ellen remarried to Tom Conroy in 1979. Prior to serving as mayor, Moyer was a member of the Annapolis city council (1987–2001) and the Maryland Racing Commission (1999–2003), served as executive director of the Maryland Commission for Women in the late 1970s, was a lobbyist of the Maryland Teacher's Association, and chaired the Economic Matters Committee, the Recreation Advisory Committee, and the Committee for a Clean and Beautiful Annapolis.
This interview covers many topics and tells of her early life, her 5 children, and her life as a mayor's wife. However, the bulk of the interview revolves around her involvement in local affairs (open space parks, Maryland Hall for the Arts, Parks and Paths for People, The Annapolis Conservancy, the Whitbread Race, Eastport Ordinance for single family housing, Second Street Committee, Eastport Historical Committee, and the presentation of Green Street and Eastport Schools.) She also speaks of her jobs as Alderperson for Ward 8, State Board of Education Employee, Executive Director for the Commission for Women, a position with the MSTA and City Council member. She eventually becomes Mayor of Annapolis.
