Please browse through the profiles of local government managers who have been featured on the Michigan Municipal Executives website.

April Lynch

City Manager, Ferndale

April Lynch started in local government as a high school co-op student for Ottawa County. In her college years, she was a park attendant. Never once during that time did she think about a permanent career in local government! … Read more.

Katrina Powell

City Manager, Hamtramck

Katrina Powell was appointed as city manager in November 2014 by an Emergency Manager, on behalf of Michigan’s Department of Treasury, to oversee the financial rebuilding of the City of Hamtramck. Read more.

John Shay

City Manager, Ludington

John Shay was elected to the board of the Michigan Local Government Management Association in 2015. He is no stranger to local government, having served in the profession for almost 20 years. Read more.

Daryl Delabbio

County Administrator/Controller, Kent County

Daryl Delabbio has served the citizens of Michigan in a variety of capacities for almost four decades. Starting with positions in small cities, he has worked his way up to the top job in one of the state’s largest counties. Read more.

Michael Young

City Manager, Rockford

Michael Young assumed the role of Rockford’s city manager in 1995, and has spent the last 20 years cultivating his own managerial skills as well as the assets of this city of just under 6,000 residents in Kent County. Read more.

Kathie Grinzinger

Lead Executive Recruiter, Michigan Municipal League

Retired from Mt. Pleasant, Kathie Grinzinger has held almost every local government management post there is — including a year as MLGMA’s president. She now leads the Michigan Municipal League’s Executive Search Service. Read more.