City Treasurer of Chicago

The city treasurer of Chicago is an elected official of the City of Chicago.

City Treasurer of Chicago
Incumbent Melissa Conyears-Ervin since May 20, 2019
Term length	4 years
Website	Office of the City Treasurer of Chicago

Current occupant

Main article: Melissa Conyears

The current city treasurer of Chicago is Democrat Melissa Conyears.^[1] Conyears was elected by Chicago citizens on April 2, 2019,^[2] and took the oath of office on May 20, 2019.^[3] She was preceded in office by Kurt Summers.^[4] Conyears was elected in the 2019 Chicago runoff election, which also included the office of mayor, beating 47th Ward Alderperson Ameya Pawar. She is the fourth African American woman to hold to position after Stephanie Neely and Judy Rice and Barbara Lumpkin.

Duties of the treasurer

The city treasurer’s office is the custodian and manager of all cash and investments for the City of Chicago, the four city employee pension funds, and the Chicago Teacher’s Pension Fund. Additionally, the treasurer’s office manages a number of programs that promote financial education and small business growth in Chicago’s neighborhoods. The treasurer is one of three city-wide elected officials in the City of Chicago, with the mayor and the clerk being the others.

The city treasurer's office operates a web page describing the office's powers and duties.^[5]

City treasurers

City clerks	Term	Notes
Melissa Conyears-Ervin	2019–	Assumed office May 20, 2019
Kurt Summers	2014–2019	Was appointed in 2014
Stephanie Neely	2006–2014	Was appointed in 2006
Judith Rice	2000-2006	Was appointed in 2000[6]
Miriam Santos	2000	[7]
Barbara Lumpkin	1999–2000	[7][8]
Miriam Santos	1989–1999	[8]
Cecil A. Partee	1979–1989	[9]
Joseph G. Bertand	1971–1979	[9]
Marshall Korshak	1967–1971	[9]
William G. Milota	1961–1967	[9]
Edmund P. Currey	1960–1961	Acting treasurer[9]
Sidney D. Deutsch	1957–1960	Was appointed in 1957[9]
Morris B. Sachs	1955–1957	[9]
David L. Hartigan	1954–1955	[9]
William G. Milota	1949–1954	[9]
Joseph T. Baran	1947–1949	[9]
Raymond Drymalski	1943–1947	[9]
Thomas S. Gordon	1939–1943	[9]
Gustave A. Brand	1935–1937	[9]
James A. Kearns	1931–1935	[9]
August B. Singer	1931	[9]
Charles S. Peterson	1927–1931	[9]
John A. Carvenka	1923–1927	[9]
Clayton F. Smith	1921–1923	[9]
Henry Stuckart	1919–1921	[9]
Clayton F. Smith	1917–1919	[9]
Fred H. Bartlett	1916–1917	[9]
Charles Sergel	1915–1916	[9]
Michael J. Flynn	1913–1915	[9]
Henry Stuckart	1911–1913	[9]
Isaac N. Powell	1909–1911	[9]
John E. Traeger	1907–1909	[9]
Fred W. Blocki	1905–1907	[9]
Ernst Hummel	1903–1906	[9]
Charles F. Gunther	1901–1903	[9]
Adam Ortseifen	1899–1901	[9]
Adam Wolf	1895–1897	[9]
Michael J. Bransfield	1893–1895	[9]
Peter Kiołbassa	1891–1893	[9]
Bernard Roesing	1889–1891	[9]
C. Herman Plautz	1887–1889	[9]
William M. Devine	1885–1887	[9]
John H. Dunphy	1883–1885	[9]
Rudolph Brand	1881–1883	[9]
William C. Saipp	1879–1881	[9]
Charles R. Larrabee	1877–1879	[9]
Clinton Briggs	1876–1877	[9]
Daniel O'Hara	1873–1875	[9]
David Allen Gage	1869–1873	[9]
William F. Wentworth	1867–1869	[9]
Amos G. Throop	1865–1867	[9]
David Allen Gage	1863–1865	[9]
W.H. Rice	1861–1863	[9]
Charles H. Hunt	1860–1861	[9]
Alonzo Harvey City	1858–1860	[9]
Charles N. Holden	1857–1858	[9]
O.J. Rose	1856–1857	[9]
William F. DeWolf	1855–1856	[9]
Uriah P. Harris	1854–1855	[9]
Edward Manierre	1850–1854	[9]
William L. Church	1848–1850	[9]
Andrew Getzler	1847–1848	[9]
William L. Church	1845–1847	[9]
Walter S. Gurnee	1843–1845	[9]
Francis Cornwall Sherman	1842–1843	[9]
N.H. Bolles	1841–1842	[9]
Walter S. Gurnee	1840	[9]
N.H. Bolles	1840	[9]
George W. Dole	1839–1840	[9]
Hiram Pearson	1837–1839	[9]