{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Mary Katherine Jaynes Shell
| image=Mary K. Shell of CA.jpgpng
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office=[[Mayor]] of Bakersfield<br>Kern County, [[California]], USA
'''Mary Katherine Jaynes Shell''', previously '''Mary Hosking''', usually known as '''Mary K. Shell''' (February 9, 1927 – June 14, 2018),<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bakersfield/obituary.aspx?pid=189315707|title=Mary Shell obituary|publisher=''The Bakersfield Californian''|date=June 17, 2018|accessdate=September 14, 2019}}</ref> was the first woman to have served as [[mayor]] of Bakersfield, [[California]] (1981–1985) and only the second woman to have served on the Kern Count] County Board of Supervisors (1985–1997). At the time of her retirement from public office, Shell was termed by ''The Bakersfield Californian'' as "the most popular [[politician]] in Kern County history."
She was the [[widow]] of [[Joe Shell|Joseph C. Shell, Sr.]], a [[Republican Party|Republican]] former minority leader of the California State Assembly from [[Los Angeles]], who was [[Richard M. Nixon]]'s intra-party opponent for [[governor]] in 1962 and a lawmaker who fought to bring water to southern California in the 1960s.<ref>[http://www.sanmarinotribune.com/tribune/read/publisher_02/2008-04-08.01 San Marino Tribune - serving San Marino, CA<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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