A compilation of mayors and time served for the city of Santa Cruz, as of early 1977.

Mayors: William F. Cooper, D. Hinds, J. D. Chace, Robert Effey (twice), G. Bowman, W. T. Jeter / William T. Jeter, H. H. Clark, W. H. Lamb, J. P. Parker, David C. Clark, T. W. Drullard (thrice), S. A. Palmer, George W. Stone, F. R. Howe, A. A. Taylor / Arthur A. Taylor, Carl C. Kratzenstein, J. B. Maher / John B. Maher, W. O. Kerrick, Fred W. Swanton, Roy Hammond, C. D. Hinkle, Edwin L. Rich, F. Roy Fulmer, C. M. Aldrich, Sam Clarke McNeely, George N. Penniman / George Penniman, Jack L. Chiorini, C. L. Dysle, Patrick J. Freeman, Tom Polk Williams Sr., Paul E. Forgey, Olin Carl White, Adrian J. Jenson, Ted R. Foster, Harold E. Carriger, John C. Daly, Bert B. Snyder Jr., John McBain, Norman Lezin, Norman A. Walters, Eugene M. Fleming, Samuel Leask III, Raymond H. Goodrich, Richard J. Werner, Ernest Wicklund Jr., Lorette Wood, Al Castagnola, Vernon L. Smith, Louis B. Muhly / Bert Muhly, Sally Di Girolamo, John Mahaney, Joseph J. Ghio / Joe Ghio