Sherry Suttles

Sherry Suttles (MPP ’71) made history as the first Black woman city manager in the United States. That was a goal Suttles had set for herself soon after graduating in the first class of Master of Public Policy degrees awarded by U-M’s Institute...

Warm greetings from Ann Arbor, where the first snow of the year has blanketed the campus. We’re enjoying the football team’s win over Ohio State—the 1,001st victory in Michigan’s history. (Our own Gerald Ford was part of sixteen of those wins...

On Saturday, July 18, the Ford School was delighted to welcome nine alumni from the early 1970s for a small-group reunion in Ann Arbor.Rick Curtis and Vic Miller came in from Washington, DC. Thomas Linn and Roger Short drove in from Detroit. And the...