Former Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell moves to D.C. to take job as aide to senator
Posted by Sabrina Eaton/Plain Dealer Bureau January 06, 2009 23:01PM
WASHINGTON -- Former Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell is moving to the nation's capital after accepting a job as chief of staff to Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.
Campbell, 55, starts the job Feb. 2. She is trying to rent her condo in Shaker Square and find a place to live in Washington, D.C.
"I thought it would be a really fabulous opportunity to work with a woman I have a great deal of respect for at a time when significant changes and excitement are going to happen in Washington," Campbell said.
Campbell and Landrieu have been friends for more than 30 years. They met through a state legislators group when they organized a women's caucus.
After serving as head of that group -- the National Conference of State Legislatures -- Campbell became a Cuyahoga County commissioner and served as Cleveland mayor from 2002 to 2006.
Most recently, she has worked at the Colliers Ostendorf-Morris real estate firm, where she worked on construction of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s new headquarters in Akron. She will step down from her post on the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority board when she takes the job in D.C.
"As we deal with national policy, the experiences of Cleveland are going to be shared, and that has to be helpful to Cleveland," Campbell said.
Landrieu, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996, is the new chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee. She also chairs the Homeland Security Committee's disaster recovery subcommittee, and is on the Appropriations Committee.
"Her national experience, as well as her time as mayor of Cleveland and in the Ohio state legislator, makes her extremely well positioned for this leadership role in my office," Landrieu said a statement.
Campbell says she's particularly eager to assist Landrieu in efforts to rebuild New Orleans after the destruction of Hurricane Katrina.
"She is really in the middle of many of the key policy issues for this country," Campbell said of Landrieu.
Posted by Sabrina Eaton/Plain Dealer Bureau January 06, 2009 23:01PM
WASHINGTON -- Former Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell is moving to the nation's capital after accepting a job as chief of staff to Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.Campbell, 55, starts the job Feb. 2. She is trying to rent her condo in Shaker Square and find a place to live in Washington, D.C.
"I thought it would be a really fabulous opportunity to work with a woman I have a great deal of respect for at a time when significant changes and excitement are going to happen in Washington," Campbell said.
Campbell and Landrieu have been friends for more than 30 years. They met through a state legislators group when they organized a women's caucus.
After serving as head of that group -- the National Conference of State Legislatures -- Campbell became a Cuyahoga County commissioner and served as Cleveland mayor from 2002 to 2006.
Most recently, she has worked at the Colliers Ostendorf-Morris real estate firm, where she worked on construction of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s new headquarters in Akron. She will step down from her post on the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority board when she takes the job in D.C.
"As we deal with national policy, the experiences of Cleveland are going to be shared, and that has to be helpful to Cleveland," Campbell said.
Landrieu, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996, is the new chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee. She also chairs the Homeland Security Committee's disaster recovery subcommittee, and is on the Appropriations Committee.
"Her national experience, as well as her time as mayor of Cleveland and in the Ohio state legislator, makes her extremely well positioned for this leadership role in my office," Landrieu said a statement.
Campbell says she's particularly eager to assist Landrieu in efforts to rebuild New Orleans after the destruction of Hurricane Katrina.
"She is really in the middle of many of the key policy issues for this country," Campbell said of Landrieu.
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