Gale Katchur is a Canadian politician and current mayor of Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta.

Katchur was born Gale Lewchuk in Fort St. John, British Columbia, but raised on a farm near Spirit River, Alberta.^[1]

Katchur served as a civil servant in the Alberta government before moving to private industry with Baker International. A few years after the birth of her second child in 1983, Katchur was hired as a civil servant for the City of Fort Saskatchewan where she worked for 17 years.

Katchur was first elected to political office in 2007 as a Fort Saskatchewan city councillor, officially resigning her job within the city government upon her election.

In 2010, she defeated incumbent mayor Jim Sheasgreen by earning 54.8% of the popular vote in the two-candidate mayoral race.^[2] She was reelected in 2013,^[3] 2017^[4] and 2021.^[5]

Katchur is the second female mayor in the history of Fort Saskatchewan. Muriel Abdurahman was the first.

Katchur is married to husband Wayne, a retired banker. They have two children: Ryan and Erin. Both are married and have children. Ryan has 2 kids named Rune and Kaia, and Erin has 2 kids named Logan and Arianna.