6/21/2006
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Mayor names new directors of public safety, city administration
INDIANAPOLIS - Mayor Bart Peterson today named two new city department heads:
- Earl S. Morgan, Public Safety Director. Morgan currently serves as director of the city’s Department of Administration & Equal Opportunity (DAEO). He is a former military officer and the former director of the Indiana Counter-Terrorism & Security Council.
- Sherlonda Anderson, director, DAEO. Anderson serves as director of diversity affairs for the Mayor and worked in DAEO as the city’s minority and women-owned businesses coordinator.
As public safety director, Morgan will oversee the Indianapolis Fire Department, Marion County Emergency Management Agency, Indianapolis Animal Care & Control and Weights & Measures. He will oversee the Indianapolis Police Department until January 1, 2007, when the new metropolitan police department is placed under the jurisdiction of the Marion County Sheriff. He replaces Robert Turner, who resigned last week.
“With his experience in the military, homeland security and public administration, Earl Morgan is the perfect fit for this job,” Mayor Peterson said. “Earl has served his city, state and country in positions that have required the utmost ability and leadership, and he will bring those same attributes to bear in keeping the people of our city safe.”
Morgan served as director of the state Counter-Terrorism & Security Council (CTASC) from 2004 to 2005. As director, Morgan led Indiana’s coordinating agency for 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, where he oversaw procurement, special events, permits, parking and other managerial duties for the city.
Before joining Peterson’s team in 2000, Morgan was director of the Indiana Department of Administration’s Logistics Center and chief of procurement and distribution at the Indiana Department of Transportation.
Morgan joined the state after an 11-year career on active duty 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.
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 Indianapolis to the Defense Finance & Accounting Services Center at Fort Benjamin Harrison. He eventually retired from the Army as a major after 10 more years in the Army Reserves.
Anderson has served as director of diversity affairs since 2004. She formerly worked as the city’s minority and women-owned businesses coordinator in DAEO, where she oversaw the city’s efforts to recruit and promote minority and women-owned businesses.
Before joining city government, she worked as director of administration for Lt. Gov. Joe Kernan.
She previously served as business manager at the Indiana Democratic Party and also worked at the law firm of Bingham Summers Welsh and Spilman. She studied at Ball State University and IUPUI, is a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority and the NAACP and served as a coordinator of Indiana Black Expo Business Conference.
As director of administration, she will oversee human resources, equal opportunity issues and administrative services for city-county government. She also will be the mayor’s point person on the city’s initiative to promote minority- and women-owned businesses.
“Sherlonda Anderson has served many roles in my administration and has done them all well,” Peterson said. “I am very happy she is accepting this new challenge to continue our missions of promoting minority- and women-owned businesses and making local government more efficient and effective.”
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