City Treasurer of Chicago

City Treasurer of Chicago
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Incumbent
Melissa Conyears-Ervin
since May 20, 2019
Term length4 years
WebsiteOffice of the City Treasurer of Chicago

The City Treasurer of Chicago is an elected official of the City of Chicago.

Current occupant

The current City Treasurer of Chicago is Democrat Melissa Conyears. Conyears was elected by Chicago citizens on April 2, 2019, and took the oath of office on May 20, 2019. She was preceded in office by Kurt Summers. Conyears was elected in the 2019 Chicago runoff election, which also included the office of mayor, beating 47th Ward Alderman Ameya Pawar. She is the fourth African American woman to hold to position after Stephanie Neely and Judy Rice and Barbara Lumpkin.

Duties of the Treasurer

The City Treasurer’s Office is the custodian and manager of all cash and investments for the City of Chicago, the four City employee pension funds, and the Chicago Teacher’s Pension Fund. Additionally, the Treasurer’s Office manages a number of programs that promote financial education and small business growth in Chicago’s neighborhoods. The Treasurer is one of three city-wide elected officials in the City of Chicago, with the Mayor and the Clerk being the others.

The City Treasurer's office operates a web page describing the office's powers and duties.

City Treasurers

City Clerks Term Notes
Melissa Conyears-Ervin 2019– Assumed office May 20, 2019
Kurt Summers 2014–2019 Was appointed in 2014
Stephanie Neely 2006–2014 Was appointed in 2006
Judith Rice 2000-2006 Was appointed in 2000
Miriam Santos 2000
Barbara Lumpkin 1999–2000
Miriam Santos 1989–1999
Cecil A. Partee 1979–1989
Joseph G. Bertand 1971–1979
Marshall Korshak 1967–1971
William G. Milota 1961–1967
Edmund P. Currey 1960–1961 Acting treasurer
Sidney D. Deutsch 1957–1960 Was appointed in 1957
Morris B. Sachs 1955–1957
David L. Hartigan 1954–1955
William G. Milota 1949–1954
Joseph T. Baran 1947–1949
Raymond Drymalski 1943–1947
Thomas S. Gordon 1939–1943
Gustave A. Brand 1935–1937
James A. Kearns 1931–1935
August B. Singer 1931
Charles S. Peterson 1927–1931
John A. Carvenka 1923–1927
Clayton F. Smith 1921–1923
Henry Stuckart 1919–1921
Clayton F. Smith 1917–1919
Fred H. Bartlett 1916–1917
Charles Sergel 1915–1916
Michael J. Flynn 1913–1915
Henry Stuckart 1911–1913
Isaac N. Powell 1909–1911
John E. Traeger 1907–1909
Fred W. Blocki 1905–1907
Ernst Hummel 1903–1906
Charles F. Gunther 1901–1903
Adam Ortseifen 1899–1901
Adam Wolf 1895–1897
Michael J. Bransfield 1893–1895
Peter Kiołbassa 1891–1893
Bernard Roesing 1889–1891
C. Herman Plautz 1887–1889
William M. Devine 1885–1887
John H. Dunphy 1883–1885
Rudolph Brand 1881–1883
William C. Saipp 1879–1881
Charles R. Larrabee 1877–1879
Clinton Briggs 1876–1877
Daniel O'Hara 1873–1875
David Allen Gage 1869–1873
William F. Wentworth 1867–1869
Amos G. Throop 1865–1867
David Allen Gage 1863–1865
W.H. Rice 1861–1863
Charles H. Hunt 1860–1861
Alonzo Harvey City 1858–1860
Charles N. Holden 1857–1858
O.J. Rose 1856–1857
William F. DeWolf 1855–1856
Uriah P. Harris 1854–1855
Edward Manierre 1850–1854
William L. Church 1848–1850
Andrew Getzler 1847–1848
William L. Church 1845–1847
Walter S. Gurnee 1843–1845
Francis Cornwall Sherman 1842–1843
N.H. Bolles 1841–1842
Walter S. Gurnee 1840
N.H. Bolles 1840
George W. Dole 1839–1840
Hiram Pearson 1837–1839

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