Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse’s next mayor has selected her top deputy.

Mayor-elect Sharon Owens on Friday named Corey Driscoll Dunham as her deputy mayor and chief of staff, the administration’s top leadership position and the closest advisor to the mayor.

It’s the same role Owens, who becomes the city’s 55th mayor on Jan. 1, has held under incumbent Mayor Ben Walsh, although some of the direct oversight responsibilities are shifting.

Dunham, 42, has served in the senior leadership for Mayor Ben Walsh since he took office in 2018. She also held multiple management titles in the first three and a half years of Mayor Stephanie Miner’s administration. Owens was also part of the Miner team in those years.

In between, she ran district offices for former U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei and was a Central

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