Mitchell Joseph Landrieu ( LAN-droo; born August 16, 1960) is an American attorney and politician who was Mayor of New Orleans from 2010 to 2018.
A Democrat, Landrieu served as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 2004 to 2010.
He is the son of former New Orleans mayor and Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Moon Landrieu and the brother of former U.S.
Senator Mary Landrieu.
In 2007, he won a second term as lieutenant governor in the October 20, 2007 nonpartisan blanket primary by defeating two Republicans: State Representative Gary J.
Beard and singer Sammy Kershaw.
He was elected Mayor of New Orleans on February 6, 2010, garnering 66 percent of the citywide vote and claiming victory in 365 of the city's 366 voting precincts.
He was reelected mayor on February 1, 2014, with nearly 64 percent of the vote in a three-candidate field and became the first Mayor to win both elections without a runoff and to be elected by majorities of both white and African-American voters.