INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT 2024: AN INTERVIEW WITH OPAL MAULDIN-JONES, CITY MANAGER OF LANCASTER, TX By Katherine Barrett, Greenebarrett.com and Liz Steward, Envisio Lancaster, Texas City Manager, Opal Mauldin-Jones Opal Mauldin-Jones has been city manager of Lancaster, Texas, a community in the Dallas/Fort Worth region, since Februaty 14, 2011. She has [...]
INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT 2024: AN INTERVIEW WITH AVIVA TEVAH, CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE CAO OF PHILADELPHIA, PA By Katherine Barrett, Greenebarrett.com and Liz Steward, Envisio Aviva Tevah, Chief of Staff to CAO, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Tevah began her career in New York City, working on reentry programs for individuals being [...]
INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT 2024: AN INTERVIEW WITH LEAGUE CO-FOUNDER PAMELA ANTIL By Katherine Barrett, Greenebarrett.com Encinitas City Manager Pamela "Pam" Antil As of 2023, some 23% of city managers, county managers, and chief administrators in the US were women according to the International City and County Management Association (ICMA) database. [...]
MEET THE 2023 LEADERSHIP TRAILBLAZER Valmarie Turner Today’s Trailblazer: Valmarie Turner The League caught up with the 2023 Leadership Trailblazer, Valmarie Turner, Deputy City Manager of Fairfax, Virginia to talk about being named a Leadership Trailblazer and having a career in public service: Q. Congratulations on being named a finalist for the Leadership Trailblazer [...]
MEET THE 2023 LEADERSHIP TRAILBLAZER FINALIST Arminé Chaparyan Today’s Trailblazer: Arminé Chaparyan The League caught up with Trailblazer Finalist, Arminé Chaparyan, City Manager of South Pasadena, California to talk about being named a Leadership Trailblazer and having a career in public service: Q. Congratulations on being named a finalist for the Leadership Trailblazer Award. [...]
MEET THE 2022 LEADERSHIP TRAILBLAZER TOP 10 FINALISTS Today’s Trailblazer: Kate Fitzpatrick The League caught up with Top 10 Finalist, Kate Fitzpatrick, Town Manager, Needham, Massachusetts to talk about being named a Leadership Trailblazer and having a career in public service: Q: Congratulations on being named a finalist for the Leadership Trailblazer Award. What does [...]
Run the World: New Women in Leadership Column By Nina Vetter, District Manager, Pueblo West Metropolitan District Welcome to our new column! Thank you to ICMA and the League of Women in Government for sponsoring and supporting our column. Every month we will hear from a different ICMA member on her experience in local [...]
Courage to Do The Right Thing By Jan Perkins, Vice President, Management Partners & WLG-CA Board Member A car flips over; you stop and run to pull the driver out. That takes courage. Someone tells a joke at another person’s expense and you say, “That’s not funny.” That takes courage. You are the only woman [...]
Guest Writer Kate Fitzpatrick on The Kitchen Cabinet is Temporarily Empty – or – It’s Getting Lonely Around Here In the spring of 2014, I helped a group of eight “seasoned” local government managers join together in an effort to develop the skills necessary for maintaining our personal and professional resiliency. I was inspired by [...]
PRESIDENT'S CORNER: New Job for the President! Last week I started my job as a Chief Administrative Officer. Not only is it the first CAO position for me personally, but I am the first woman to serve in this position in the history of the county where I am now serving. A “first” that is [...]