Patricia Walker

Patricia Walker was promoted to City of Chandler Management Services Director in April 1995, after serving as Assistant Management Services Director since July 1993. Prior to that, she served as a Management and Budget Officer for the City since June 1989. She held the position of City Accountant for the City of Chandler, and the City Accountant position for the City of East Peoria, Illinois. She has twenty-nine years of governmental finance and administrator experience.

Pat holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of Illinois, and a Master’s degree in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix. As of October 2003, she was appointed to the Government Finance Officers Association’s (GFOA) Executive Committee on Economic Development and Capital Planning for a three-year term. Recently she was appointed as chair of the “Recommended Practices for Economic Development” Sub-Committee for GFOA.