Councillor Carol Ross
Cllr Carol Ross has been elected as the 29th Mayor of North Lincolnshire. She was elected in a ceremony at the Council’s Annual Meeting on 15 May 2025.
Cllr Ross moved to Brigg from Middle Rasen with her family in 1974 and started working for Humberside County Council in 1976 in what was the Area Surveyors Office as a cartographer, where she worked with maps.
In 1989, having been based in Beverley and living in Driffield, she moved back down to live in Broughton, and continued her career at North Lincolnshire Council, in Development Control as a Senior Highway Engineer. In 1999, due to a horse-riding accident, she was forced to retire.
Cllr Ross became a Broughton town councillor and in May 2021 was elected as a ward councillor for North Lincolnshire Council representing the Broughton and Appleby ward, which is now Broughton and Scawby Ward.
Cllr Ross enjoys her council-related work immensely, and is an active member of the planning committee, sitting as deputy chair; the North Lincolnshire standards committee and audit committee, together with the Children’s Scrutiny Panel, and as member of the Enhanced Bus Partnership for North Lincolnshire.
Cllr Ross’s Mayoral Chaplin will be the Rev David Eames and her chosen charities benefiting for the year will be the North Lincolnshire MacMillan Nurses Organisation and Jen’s Special Place, Scunthorpe (a young person’s bereavement charity).
Cllr Ross said: “I am looking forward to my year in office as the Mayor of North Lincolnshire and hope I can help promote our County, in as many ways as possible.”
The Deputy Mayor of North Lincolnshire
Councillor Janet Lee is the Deputy Mayor of North Lincolnshire.
The Mayor’s Consort
The Mayor’s Consort of North Lincolnshire is Mrs Rachael Watchorn.
