Town of Columbia Mayor

Hannah Cummings Springer

Mayor Springer was first elected in 2022 after serving as town alderman for 6 years. As mayor, Springer has helped move town hall to a more modern, visible building on the main thoroughfare, US Highway 165.  Springer is also responsible for getting the town online for traffic and utilities payments, as well as helping upgrade the police and fire department’s equipment, using grant money to pave a two block portion of Church Street, building handicapped accessible ramps on Wall and Main Streets, and repaving a section of sidewalk damaged by the roots of the beautiful large oak trees at the courthouse.  We are also in the process of developing a beautiful town lake and walking trail with state allocated federal funds from the Louisiana Watershed Initiative project. As alderman, Springer created the town’s first Farmers Market, voted to upgrade the town’s water pumping system and water tower, and helped organize several clean-up efforts downtown.
      Mayor Springer is only the second woman to serve Columbia as mayor.  The town became the first city in the state to elect a woman to that role in 1953, with the election of Mayor Lynn Alford.  Springer hopes to move Columbia forward well into the future, embracing our historic beauty, but always growing and changing to meet the needs of our wonderful citizens and visitors!  She is married to husband Matt.  They have two children, Larrah and Will.  Springer has been a teacher since 2006 and serves as her church’s music director, but has office hours at town hall every Monday and during summer break from school.