San Jose City Manager Jennifer Maguire ’86, MBA ’94 oversees the 13th largest city in the U.S., with a budget of $6.1 billion and 7,000 employees. To meet increasingly complex challenges, Maguire has created four areas of focus: community safety, reducing unsheltered homelessness, cleaning up neighborhoods, and attracting investment in jobs and housing.
“With basic services generally addressed, residents are now asking us to turn our attention to much more difficult problems—really wicked challenges, like homelessness. Traditional approaches, frameworks, and measurements are not usually sufficient for the big challenges, especially ones that affect lives and livelihoods.”
—Jennifer Maguire ’86, MBA ’94,
San Jose City Hall (right) is her office
