Eunice Sato

Eunice Sato
Mayor of Long Beach
In office
1980–1982
Preceded by Thomas J. Clark
Succeeded by Thomas J. Clark
Personal details
Born (1921-06-08) June 8, 1921
Livingston, California
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Thomas Sato
(m.1950–2013; his death)
Profession teacher

Eunice Noda Sato (born June 8, 1921) is an American politician. She served as mayor of Long Beach, California from 1980 to 1982. Sato is the daughter of Japanese parents Bunsaku and Sawa Maeda Noda. She attended Modesto Junior College, the University of Northern Colorado, and Columbia University, and became a teacher. She taught in Michigan and overseas in Yokohama, Japan. In 1950, she married Thomas Takahashi Sato. She moved to Long Beach in 1956.[1] She was elected to the Long Beach City Council in 1975 and served until 1986.[2] In 1991 she was appointed to the U.S. National Advisory Council on Educational Research by George H. W. Bush. She is the first female mayor of Long Beach.[3] In September 2014, a school in Long Beach was named in her honor.[4][5]

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