Mayor M. Jane Seeman, a resident of Vienna since 1968, has died. Seeman, who died Sunday, according to Town of Vienna spokeswoman Kirstyn Barr, served on the Vienna Town Council since 1996 and was first elected mayor in 2000.
Seeman, who has served as the town's top leader for more than a decade, was diagnosed last year with lung cancer. She was receiving treatment for the illness. She was first elected Mayor in the year 2000 and was re-elected in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012.
She recently said she would not be running for another term as mayor.
"She will continue to serve as Vienna’s Mayor while she is battling this illness," the town said in a statement last summer.
Seeman was in her seventh term as Vienna's mayor. She and her family have deep roots in the area: Seeman has lived in Vienna since 1968. And before she took the reigns as mayor, her husband, the late Rodger W. Seeman, had served on the town council for a decade before his death 17 years ago.
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Jane Seeman was appointed to fill his unexpired term in 1996, then went on to win two more council seats, in 1997 and 1999, on her own.
"This town has been so good to my family and to me and it’s just he place that I love," Seeman told Patch last year.
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If you would like to send a note of condolence to the family, cards can be sent in care to the Town Clerk’s Office at: 127 Center Street S, Vienna, VA 22180.
Prior to assuming office she was the former Chairman of the Community Enhancement Commission; she represented the Town on the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, Towns Association of Northern Virginia, Environmental Policy Steering Committee, the Tysons Partnership and the Greater Tysons Coordinating Committee.
She was a member of Historic Vienna Inc., Rotary Club of Vienna and other community organizations; she also volunteered more than 3,000 hours at Patrick Henry Library. She received the Vienna Toastmasters Community and Leadership Award in 1997; in 1999 she was named Citizen of the Year by the Vienna Times and Vienna Chamber of Commerce and received the Rotary “Service Above Self Award.”
Mayor Seeman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business and Economics from Fort Hays Kansas State College.
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