San Diego Interim Mayor Todd Gloria awarded leadership fellowship

From SDGLN, Nov. 6, 2013 | SDGLN Staff

SAN DIEGO — Interim Mayor Todd Gloria is one of 24 elected officials from around the U.S. to be awarded Aspen Institute’s Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership.

The fellowships are awarded to the nation’s most promising young political leaders who have demonstrated a commitment to effective and principled bipartisan governance, according to the institute.

Todd Gloria (Courtesy of SDGLN)

“These are men and women who have forged records of excellence at all levels of American government,” said former Congressman Mickey Edwards, the program’s director. “All of them have been nominated for the fellowship by their peers and by political observers and community leaders who have singled them out as the best of the best of our emerging political leadership.”

The Aspen Institute program was established in 2005 and today includes Fellows who have since gone on to serve as governors, members of Congress, high-ranking local and state officials, and members of the President’s Cabinet.

Members of the new leadership class include:

Stacy Abrams, minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives; Justin Alfond, president of the Maine Senate; Andy Berke, the mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee; Oklahoma state representative Lisa Billy; Pennsylvania state representative Kevin Boyle; Arizona state representative Heather Carter, and Lieutenant Governor Spencer Cox of Utah.

Also, Colorado state representative Brian DelGrosso; Risa Ferman, district attorney of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; Nevada state representative Lucy Flores; San Diego City Council President and interim Mayor, Todd Gloria; Texas state representative Eric Johnson, and Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander.

And, Nevada state representative Ben Kieckheffer; Chicago City Clerk Susana Mendoza; Nebraska state legislator Amanda McGill; West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrissey; Kraig Paulsen, speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives; Minnesota state senator Roger Reinert; Missouri state representative Ryan Silvey; Shap Smith, the speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives; Dayne Walling, the mayor of Flint, Michigan; Lieutenant Governor Drew Wrigley of North Dakota; and Kim Wyman, the Washington secretary of state.

The original SDGLN article can be viewed here.