J j murphy, city manager accomplished city administrator

J.J. Murphy, City Manager: Accomplished City Administrator J.J. Murphy, City Manager for Hobbs, New Mexico has been a municipal manager for 13 years, and a United States Air Force officer for 17 years. As a city administrator in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and for Hobbs, Murphy has shown creative managerial skills, as well as developing new effective ways to make a city financially secure, even cities on the brink of bankruptcy. He graduated from King’s College in Wilkes-Barre in 1993, and received a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Marywood University in Scranton in 1998. While he studied for his Master’s degree, he became a recruiter for the US Air Force at the University of Notre Dame.

As his experience in the Air Force grew, he added valuable expertise to his resume he would eventually use as a city administrator. He became public affairs officer at Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1998 and Controller/Watch Supervisor at the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center in 2000. He has been granted Top Secret security clearance for the past 16 years. He volunteered for deployment to Djibouti, Africa coordinating rescue efforts there. J.J. Murphy, City Manager volunteered again in 2010, to help set up the first Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Recovery Joint Personnel Center in the US Southern Command, which helped direct rescue efforts in Haiti after the devastating earthquake there. Murphy has used his experiences leading his team in desperate circumstances in his career as a city administrator.

In 2002, J.J. Murphy began his career in city administration. He moved back to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he studied Political Science at King’s University. He was promoted to City Administrator in 2004 and helped save Wilkes-Barre from bankruptcy by implementing a five-year recovery plan. In all, the city of Wilkes-Barre saw an audited financial turnaround of about $57 million from 2003 to 2009. Murphy created new opportunities for economic development by working with the elected officials to coordinate $150 million in new economic development initiatives during his seven years in Wilkes-Barre.

After his time in Wilkes-Barre, J.J. Murphy City Manager made his way to Hobbs, New Mexico, in 2012 where he encountered some stagnant economic development projects and a shortage of public safety officers. In only three years, Murphy helped transform Hobbs into a safer community and has delivered multiple quality of life improvements that were stuck on a drawing board.