Lawyer Dwight Tillery, a Democrat, served on Cincinnati City Council from 1990 through 1998. He was the city's first elected black mayor from 1991 to 1993.
1948: Born March 10.
1972: Earned a law degree at the University of Michigan. (Previously graduated from Withrow High School and the University of Cincinnati.) 1973: Worked as an assistant in the Cincinnati city solicitor's office.
1974: Named assistant executive vice president at the University of Cincinnati.
1975: Appointed to fill the Cincinnati City Council seat vacated by Vice Mayor William J. Chenault, who resigned amid scandal. Narrowly lost his election bid to retain Mr. Chenault's seat that November. 1978: Went into private law practice.
1980: Moved to Columbus to work as a senior assistant for former Attorney General Anthony Celebrezze.
1985: Returned to Cincinnati and taught at Miami University. Served on the city's Human Relations Commission and the Cincinnati Board of Health.
1990: Named head of the Cincinnati Minority and Female Business Incubator.
1990: Appointed to fill the council seat vacated by Mayor Charles Luken.
Nov. 5, 1991: Became Cincinnati's first black popularly elected mayor. (Theodore Berry was Cincinnati's first black mayor, in the 1970s, but he was appointed by his council colleagues.) As mayor, Mr. Tillery stood against teen violence and for job creation. He led a coalition to oust City Manager Gerald Newfarmer.
Nov. 1993: Returned by voters to a seat on council - but not as mayor - Mr. Tillery has been known as a champion of neighborhoods. March 1995: Changing his vote on the city's human rights ordinance, Mr. Tillery becomes the swing vote needed to defeat the measure, which outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation.
July 1995: Proposed buying land in Bond Hill to prevent Hamilton County from locating a juvenile jail there.
January 1997: Mr. Tillery became a force behind a coalition of three Republicans and two Democrats that has ruled the nine-member council for almost two years.
Nov. 22, 1998: Announced his resignation from city council, effective Nov. 30.
