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| Miss Stephanie Rawlings-Blake |
The mayor of Baltimore has announced that she will not seek
re-election when polls are held in 2016.Stephanie Rawlings-Blake made the announcement five months after wide scale rioting erupted following the death of a black man who was injured in police custody.
She recently announced that the city had settled with the family of victim Freddie Gray for $6.4m (£4.15m) to avoid civil litigation.
Ms Rawlings-Blake became mayor in 2010.
"It was a very difficult decision," she said during a press conference on Friday. "But I knew I needed to spend time focused on the city's future, not my own".
She assumed office in 2010 after her scandal-hit predecessor, Sheila Dixon, stepped down.
She then went on to win the 2011 Democratic primary election with 52% of the vote - essentially clinching the mayor's office for the next term in the heavily Democratic city.
Ms Rawlings-Blake is the daughter of a popular state delegate, and worked as a lawyer previously.
She was elected to the city's council in 1995 when she was just 25 - making her the youngest person to hold a place on the council.
Source: BBC
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