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 the mayor, beating 47th Ward Alderperson Ameya Pawar. She is the fourth African American woman to hold the 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
If a midterm vacancy occurs, the treasurer is appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the council. That treasurer may then choose to run for a new term of office in the next general election. City clerksTerm(s) Notes Melissa Conyears-Ervin 2019– Assumed office May 20, 2019 Kurt Summers 2014–2019Was appointed in 2014 Stephanie Neely 2006–2014Was appointed in 2006 Judith Rice 2000-2006 Was appointed in 2000Miriam Santos2000Barbara Lumpkin1999–2000Miriam Santos1989–1999Cecil A. Partee1979–1989Joseph G. Bertand1971–1979Marshall Korshak1967–1971William G. Milota1961–1967Edmund P. Currey1960–1961Acting treasurerSidney D. Deutsch1957–1960Was appointed in 1957Morris B. Sachs1955–1957David L. Hartigan1954–1955William G. Milota1949–1954Joseph T. Baran1947–1949Raymond Drymalski1943–1947Thomas S. Gordon1939–1943Gustave A. Brand1935–1937James A. Kearns1931–1935August B. Singer1931Charles S. Peterson1927–1931 John A. Carvenka 1923–1927Clayton F. Smith1921–1923Henry Stuckart1919–1921Clayton F. Smith1917–1919Fred H. Bartlett1916–1917Charles Sergel1915–1916Michael J. Flynn1913–1915Henry Stuckart1911–1913Isaac N. Powell1909–1911John E. Traeger1907–1909Fred W. Blocki 1905–1907Ernst Hummel1903–1906Charles F. Gunther1901–1903Adam Ortseifen 1899–1901Adam Wolf1895–1897 Michael J. Bransfield 1893–1895 Peter Kiołbassa 1891–1893Bernard Roesing1889–1891C. Herman Plautz1887–1889 William M. Devine 1885–1887John H. Dunphy1883–1885 Rudolph Brand 1881–1883William C. Saipp1879–1881Charles R. Larrabee1877–1879 Clinton Briggs 1876–1877Daniel O'Hara1873–1875David Allen Gage1869–1873William F. Wentworth1867–1869Amos G. Throop1865–1867David Allen Gage1863–1865W.H. Rice1861–1863Charles H. Hunt1860–1861Alonzo Harvey City1858–1860Charles N. Holden1857–1858O.J. Rose1856–1857 William F. DeWolf 1855–1856Uriah P. Harris1854–1855Edward Manierre1850–1854 William L. Church 1848–1850Andrew Getzler1847–1848 William L. Church 1845–1847Walter S. Gurnee1843–1845Francis Cornwall Sherman1842–1843 N.H. Bolles 1841–1842Walter S. Gurnee1840 N.H. Bolles 1840 George W. Dole 1839–1840 Hiram Pearson1837–1839
References
External links City Treasurer of Chicago's Office