Mayor Thomasina Jefferson

Debuting in 1994's Icon #9 under the visionary hand of Dwayne McDuffie and M. D. Bright, Mayor Thomasina Jefferson is a civic fixture of the Milestone Universe — the kind of authority figure who gives Dakota City its political heartbeat. She moves through stories alongside luminaries like Static, Hardware, and Icon himself, grounding the superheroic chaos of the Dakota world in the realities of municipal power. Though her catalog footprint is modest, her presence spans nearly three decades of Milestone publishing — from its pioneering Copper Age origins through DC's celebrated modern revivals — and anyone diving into the Milestone Compendium will find her part of the rich social fabric that made this universe so distinctive and worth championing.