Sharon Sayles Belton

Sharon Sayles Belton (born May 13, 1951) is an American community leader, politician and activist. She is Vice President of Community Relations and Government Affairs for Thomson Reuters Legal business.
She served as mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1994 until 2001.
Early years
Sayles Belton was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. One of four daughters of Bill and Ethel Sayles, she lived for one year with her mother in Richfield, Minnesota, where she was the only African-American in East Junior High School. She then moved to south Minneapolis to live with her father and stepmother. She attended Central High School, volunteered as a candy striper at Mount Sinai Hospital, and later worked as a nurse's aide. She was briefly a civil rights activist in the state of Mississippi.
Sayles Belton attended Macalester College in Saint Paul, where she studied biology and sociology. She later worked as a parole officer with victims of sexual assault...