8/22/2005
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Mayor names Earl Morgan as new director of city administration
INDIANAPOLIS- Mayor Bart Peterson today named Earl S. Morgan as the new director of the city’s Department of Administration & Equal Opportunity. Morgan was most recently director of the Indiana Counter-Terrorism & Security Council (CTASC).
As director of administration, he will oversee all human resources, equal opportunity and administrative services for city government. He also will be the mayor’s point person on the city’s initiative to promote minority- and women-owned businesses, which has been recognized throughout the community and nation.
He replaces Brenda Burke, who left the city to join Wellpoint as director of supplier diversity-nationwide.
"Earl Morgan has served his city, state and country in a variety of positions that have required the utmost ability and leadership," Mayor Peterson said. "I am very pleased to welcome him back to my team."
As CTASC director, Morgan led Indiana’s coordinating agency for the state’s homeland security efforts and was the state’s liaison to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Before taking on that role, he served as deputy controller for Indianapolis from 2000 to 2004, where he oversaw procurement, special events, permits, parking and other managerial duties for the city.
Before joining Mayor Peterson’s team in 2000, he was director of the Indiana Department of Administration’s Logistics Center, where he ran numerous projects in warehousing, leasing, procurement and printing that saved state government hundreds of thousands of dollars.
He also was chief of procurement and distribution and an administrative analyst at the Indiana Department of Transportation, where he developed a minority business enterprise orientation and training program.
Morgan joined state government after an 11-year career in the U.S. Army. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Fort Valley State College in Georgia in 1979, he was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army.
After a tour of duty in Germany, he reported to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas where he completed executive training in logistics, planning, operations and tactics. His next assignment brought him to Indiana to the Defense Finance and Accounting Services Center at Fort Benjamin Harrison. Morgan retired from the Army after 21 years of service with the rank of major.
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