Barbara Jo Blain-Bellamy

Barbara Jo Blain-Bellamy has been mayor of Conway since 2016, when she became Conway's first Black mayor. She began serving on Conway's City Council in 1993, and she worked as the city's deputy administrator in the early 2000s. Blain-Bellamy, who holds an undergraduate degree from Coastal Carolina University and a master's from University of South Carolina, is a member of the South Carolina Bar Association, president of the Horry County League of Cities, and executive board member of the Myrtle Beach Regional Council of Governments. She received an honorary doctorate from Coastal Carolina University in 2018.