Mayor of Detroit
Dave Bing is current mayor of Detroit and is founder and chairman of The Bing Group, a diversified base of unionized manufacturing companies housed on 30 acres in Detroit’s North End that employs some 500 people.
Detroit City Council
Saunteel Jenkins is director of the residential treatment program at Mariners Inn. Prior to her current position, Saunteel was National Business Development Director for a private education company, Platform Learning. As an entrepreneur, she started Petite Sweets, a dessert catering company. Saunteel served as chief of staff to Maryann Mahaffey while she was president of Detroit City Council.
Gary Brown is the former Detroit Police deputy chief. During his 26 years of service with the DPD, he served the community as Commander of the 1st, 3rd, 9th and 11th Precincts, and also provided executive direction in a variety of critical areas, including Gang Squad, Narcotics and Internal Affairs. Gary is currently the founder and owner of Brown & Associates, which provides objective and professional case consultant services for law enforcement and private security litigation.
Charles Pugh has worked as a reporter and anchor on FOX 2 News. Pugh was also a host and newscaster on FM 98 WJLB. Pugh left his careers in radio and television and on May 3, announcing his candidacy to run for Detroit City Council.
Ken Cockrel, Jr. is the current president of the Detroit City Council. He served as interim mayor for the city in 2008-2009, is a former journalist for the Detroit Free Press and a former Wayne County commissioner.
Jai-Lee Dearing, in addition to owning a small business, serves as Detroit Housing Commissioner, where he manages his department’s budget and nearly half a billion dollars in federal funds. Brought on to clean up the housing commission, Jai-Lee Dearing was forced to eliminate 80 percent of the department’s workers to wipeout widespread corruption in our city.
Fred Elliott Hall is founder and president of Novatech Computer Services Company and president of H&P Protective Services. He completed an MBA in finance from Wayne State, and in 1989 founded Novatech. It was one of the first computer services companies of its kind, providing computer training and networking. He also co-founded Project Exposure, an African American young male mentoring program.
Detroit City Charter Revision Commission
Jenice Mitchell-Ford is senior counsel in the Detroit office of Foley & Lardner LLP, specializing in Commercial Litigation. Mitchell Ford was a steering committee member for Michigan Lawyers for Obama, coordinating voter protection efforts during the historic 2008 election. She has served on transition teams for elected officials and worked on presidential, gubernatorial and mayoral elections.
Sarah D. Lile served as director of the department of environmental affairs for the City of Detroit from 1995 to 2005. Before coming to city government, Lile was a partner in the law firm of Fink Zausmer P.C., where she specialized in environmental litigation and planning, eminent domain and commercial litigation. In addition to her legal and government experience, Lile served as Assistant Dean and Lecturer in Law at Wayne State University Law School from 1982-84, where she taught employment law.
Patty Fedewa has practiced labor law since 1995, after graduating from Detroit College of Law cum laude in 1994. Since 2002, she has been the bus improvement project chair of Transportation Riders United (TRU). In this role, she has lobbied the mayor, city council, and DDOT to improve transit.
Kenneth L. Harris is the founder, president and CEO of the International Detroit Black Expo, Inc., an economic empowerment agent for African-American businesses in the State of Michigan. Over the last few years, the nonprofit organization has grown exponentially to more than 7,500 African-American business members across the State of Michigan providing a stronghold in the community.
Jonathan Kinloch has served on the Detroit Library Commission and has initiated several programs to increase literacy in Detroit. Kinloch also believes that revising the charter alone is not sufficient if council members are not willing enough or courageous enough to use the provisions of the charter for the best interests of Detroiters, and that it is essential for the City Charter to be a clear, concise and binding document in order to accomplish this.
John Eddings served as Macomb County ombudsman for a year, after having served 10 years as Detroit’s city ombudsman. He believes that the city council should be elected by a combination of district and at-large elections. He also believes that the city attorney needs to be completely independent in governance of the city law department.
Cara Blount retired as deputy chief, Detroit Police Department. She serves as an adjunct instructor at Wayne State University and Wayne County Community College District. Blount believes the city would be better served by having council members elected by district.
Ken Coleman is former legislative assistant to former Detroit City Councilwoman Brenda M. Scott, State Senator Irma Clark-Coleman and State Senator Buzz Thomas. He serves as the director of the Office of Community Relations and Office of Governmental Relations for Detroit Public Schools, as well as reporter and senior editor for the Michigan Chronicle.
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