On Wednesday morning, more than 50 people gathered in the Betty Ford classroom of the Ford School of Public Policy for the seminar “Women Leading Local Government” . The Michigan Municipal League’s 16/50 Project hosted the seminar featuring four women who are leading figures in the state’s municipal government.

Summer Minnick, deputy executive director and chief of staff at the Michigan Municipal League, welcomed the audience and provided a brief history of the 16/50 Project, which began in 2018. The project’s name refers to the percentage of Michigan’s local chief administrative officers who were women. Although Michigan’s population is more than 50% women, only 16% of the state’s municipal managers were women in 2018.Minnick said the name is a reminder of both how much progress h

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