Richmond Mayor-elect Dwight Clinton Jones reached out today to more than 40 leaders in a wide range of fields to prepare his transition to the top job at City Hall.
Jones expanded his mayoral transition team to 45 leaders, including corporate executives, public finance experts, political leaders and business owners -- even a former professional basketball star. The team is divided among 10 areas of public policy -- budget and finance, education, public safety, community development, economic development, human services, parks and recreation, transportation, employee relations, and information technology.
Among the experts tapped for the team are:
Paul W. Timmreck, a former state finance secretary and Virginia Commonwealth University official, who will serve on a budget and finance group that also includes such corporate executives as Gil Minor, C.T. Hill, and Thomas Chewning.
Former Richmond School Board Chairman Melvin Law, who will serve on an education group that includes teacher union representative Julian Ferras;
Sheriff C.T.Woody and former Lt. Gov. John H. Hager, who are part of a team for public safety issues that includes Robert A. Blue, a former public policy director in the governor's office who leads the corporate and government affairs division at Dominion Resources Inc.;
The leaders of two critical quasi-governmental agencies, Anthony Scott at Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority and John M. Lewis Jr. at GRTC Transit System, to work on community development and transportation, respectively;
Former state Commerce Secretary Michael Schewel, who will serve on an economic development team that includes local restaurateur and local Hispanic community leader Michel Zajur and Ukrop's Super Markets corporate lawyer Brian Jackson;
Former Del. Anne G. "Panny" Rhodes and University of Richmond/NBA basketball star John Newman on the team addressing parks and recreation;
Former state transportation secretary and Del. Whittington Clement, working on transportation issues;
Former Richmond Mayor Walter Kenney as part of a team focusing on employee relations; and
Ranjit Sen, president of CXI, a Richmond-based international software and information technology, on the information technology team.
Jones, who will take office in January, called the transition team members "some of the best, brightest and most professional individuals in Richmond."
For a full list of the transition team, see tomorrow's Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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