Detroit Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield names David Bowser chief of staff

Newly elected Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield has named David Bowser, who served as a senior coverage advisor throughout her current marketing campaign and is director of Sheffield’s transition staff, as Metropolis Corridor chief of employees.

“David Bowser’s deep data of Detroit communities and the challenges our residents face makes him uniquely ready for this position,” Sheffield stated in a Dec. 19 information launch.

“He brings with him a progressive dedication to equality on which our authorities was constructed. As chief of employees, he’ll assist information an administration that listens, places Detroiters first and continues to achieve greater.”

Bowser served in Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s administration as deputy director of the Division of Housing and Revitalization, deputy director of the Group Well being Corps and director of Human Providers, the information launch stated.

Bowser stated within the press launch that he’s honored to proceed working intently with Sheffield, calling her “a deeply pragmatic, people-driven chief with a novel capability to convey broad coalitions collectively round tangible advantages for the folks of Detroit.”

Bowser is a graduate of Vanderbilt College and Creighton College Faculty of Medication, the place he earned a grasp’s diploma in public well being.

Sheffield, who takes workplace Jan. 1, beforehand introduced she’s going to retain Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison and named her Metropolis Council chief of employees, Brian White, as deputy mayor.

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