CCMF strives to encourage and support excellence in city management. The following individuals demonstrate the characteristics of top-notch civic leaders.
What inspired you to enter city management? I actually wrote a fourth grade career day essay saying I wanted to become a city manager, but it was in 1965 when [...]
Newport Beach City Manager Grace Leung shares her journey to the city management profession.
What inspired you to enter city management? Local government is a bit of a family business. My mom is a retired deputy city clerk from Royal Oak, Michigan, and growing [...]
What inspired you to enter city management? I believe in cities with every core of my being. In 2012, I delivered a TED Talk about the power of cities and [...]
What inspired you to enter city management? Public service has been a tradition in my family; and specifically, my high school civics teacher and my grandfather inspired lifelong civic curiosity [...]
What inspired you to enter city management? There was a calling and a passion for public service during my high school days at Los Amigos High School in Fountain Valley. [...]
What inspired you to enter city management? After being laid off from the bank where I had worked for several years, I entered college with the goal of returning to [...]
What inspired you to enter city management? How did you become a city manager? My trajectory was atypical and non-traditional. While my education and subsequent training was focused on public [...]
Get to know Eric Figueroa, CCMF Board Member and City of Martinez City Manager.
The first brother-sister city manager pair in California history, Aram and Arminé Chaparyan are first-generation immigrants on a shared path to serve the public and give back.
Get to know Aaron Adams: CCMF Board Member and City Manager of Temecula.
Get to know Paul Arevalo, CCMF Board Member and City Manager of West Hollywood.
Learn more about Robert Gamble, CCMF Secretary/Treasurer and Managing Director at Public Financial Management (PFM).