M. Jane Seeman

Madena Jane Seeman was the Mayor of the Town of Vienna from 2000 to 2013.

Seeman was born Madena Jane Chittenden and grew up in Fort Hays, Kansas. She was one of three daughters of Herbert H. and Madena T. Chittenden. Her first name, Madena, was an old family name, shared by both her mother and maternal grandmother.

Seeman was a 1959 graduate of Fort Hays State College in Kansas, where she also met her husband, Rodger W. Seeman, in addition to taking her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business and Economics.

She and her husband moved to Vienna in 1968. For 20 years, she was the director of the preschool program at the Vienna Community Center until she retired in 1998.

She was first appointed to the town council in 1996 to fill the term of her husband, who died November 6 of that year.

After being elected to the town council in 1997 and 1999, she was elected mayor in 2000 replacing Charles A. Robinson, Jr., who had died January 3.

In 2013, Seeman announced that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer, but would continue in her duties as mayor while receiving treatment, although she announce in December that she would not seek another term as mayor. Seeman died on February 23, 2014.