By Daily Press staff
A top city official was recently credentialed as a manager. Assistant City Manager Gordon Anderson recently received the “International City/County Management Association Credentialed Manager designation.” Anderson is one of 735 local government management professionals who are credentialed through the ICMA voluntary credentialing program.
To be credentialed by ICMA, a member must have significant experience as a senior management executive in local government, have earned a degree, preferably in public administration or a related field, and demonstrated a commitment to high standards of integrity and to lifelong learning and professional development Anderson is qualified by 22 years of professional local government executive experience. Prior to his appointment in March 2000 as assistant city manager, he served five years as assistant city manager in Hayward and four years in the same capacity in San Pablo. Prior to that, Anderson spent four years as special assistant to the city manager and five years as economic development administrator for the city of Pasadena. Anderson has a degree in urban and public administration from Occidental College and an MBA from Saint Mary’s College of California. He came to city government from a background in banking.
In addition to his professional tenure, highlights of Anderson’s ICMA membership include chairmanship of the Committee on Professional Conduct in 1997 and 2002, former member of the board of governors of the ICMA University that began the certification initiative, and former member of the Urban Consortium Steering Committee of the Public Technology Institute (PTI). Anderson also is a conference presenter, mentor to aspiring municipal administrators and member of the National Forum for Black Public Administrators and the Urban Land Institute and the Hispanic Network.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 27, 2004. Read the original PDF.