What Happened?
Chicago, IL-based County of Cook has announced the Resignation of Lydia Murray as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Cook County is a county in the United States state of Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the population was 5,194,675.
About the Person
Lydia Murray has worked for nearly two decades in public service to make cities run better. She joined the Civic Consulting Alliance in 2011 and brought expertise in local government service delivery and performance management of government operations. In late 2012, she went on to become the Chief Information Officer for Cook County. Prior to joining Civic Consulting, Lydia served two tours of duty as Deputy Chief of Staff to Mayor Richard Daley working on issues of technology, process improvement, and performance management. Her efforts in the Mayor’s Office led to the development of a comprehensive citywide performance management system which saw savings of more than $30 million dollars on top of adding the equivalent of over 100 employees to the City’s workforce over a 2 year implementation. In between stints in the Mayor’s office she also served for two years as Chief of Staff for President of the Chicago Transit Authority helping to oversee a $2 billion budget and operations which provided 1.7 million rides daily to residents and visitors to Chicago and its suburbs. Lydia’s other public service experience includes a stint as Director of Charlotte, North Carolina’s Welfare-to-Work program and working for more than four years in the working for Mayor Rudy Giuliani in New York City in various positions including Director of the Mayor’s Action Center and Assistant Commissioner for Strategic Planning of Housing, Preservation and Development. Lydia holds a bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies and Political Science from The College of Wooster in Ohio and a master’s degree in Urban Policy from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Lydia is a Board member of SCUPE, a non-profit training organization for urban ministers in Chicago, and serves on the Local School Council of Newberry Academy, a Chicago Public School Math and Science magnet school. She is an active member at St. Paul's United Church of Christ and enjoys attending Cubs games with her husband Tom and two sons, Colin and Zack.
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