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<br />Catherine Tuck Parrish
<br />PRACTICE LEADER/RECRUITER
<br />Senior Vice President
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<br />PROFILE
<br />Catherine leads our executive services practice area that addresses workforce
<br />issues through executive recruitment, coaching for local government leaders,
<br />and facilitating performance evaluations for council/board appointees. She
<br />has over 30 years of management experience working for local governments
<br />of all sizes and a nonprofit association. Catherine has conducted hundreds of
<br />searches for manager/administrator, general manager/executive director,
<br />deputy/assistant manager, police chief, fire chief, and directors of public
<br />works, planning, economic development, finance, human resources,
<br />information technology, human services, and other key positions in local
<br />governments across the country.
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<br />In addition to executive recruitment, she has facilitated numerous governing
<br />body workshops, staff retreats, and strategic planning sessions. Her work as a
<br />consultant includes project management and contributions to several local
<br />government projects, such as process improvement studies, departmental
<br />assessments, planning and permitting process reviews, and policy
<br />development.
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<br />Catherine’s most recent local government experience was as deputy city
<br />manager in Rockville, Maryland, where she oversaw parks and recreation,
<br />human resources, information technology, finance, neighborhood resources
<br />(citizen engagement), communications, customer service, and
<br />intergovernmental functions. She also served as acting city manager in
<br />Rockville for nearly a year. Before joining Rockville, Catherine served as
<br />assistant to the county executive in Fairfax County, Virginia, working on
<br />change management issues, including a new pay system, employee
<br />engagement, and internal communication improvements. Catherine has
<br />served as an ethics advisor at the International City/County Management
<br />Association (ICMA), counseling elected officials and citizen groups regarding
<br />employment agreements, forms of government issues, and recruitment. She
<br />also worked for the City of Denton, Texas.
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<br />Catherine chaired the ICMA’s Acting Manager Task Force, which produced
<br />a handbook for interim managers. She also led the Maryland City/County
<br />Management Association (MCCMA) as president and vice president. She served as president, vice president, and
<br />secretary of the Metropolitan Association of Local Government Assistants in the Washington, D.C., metro area.
<br />Catherine has spoken at national and state conferences on a variety of topics, including workforce and recruitment
<br />trends, civility, effective councils, ethics, forms of government, human resources, strategic planning, budget
<br />strategies, developing high-performing organizations, and leadership. She has also spoken at the National League of
<br />Cities’ Leadership Training Institute on recruiting and evaluating the CEO. Catherine is a certified instructor of the
<br />Myers-Briggs Type Indicator instrument.
<br />Specialties
<br />•Executive search
<br />•Strategic planning
<br />•Facilitation
<br />•Strategy development and
<br />implementation
<br />•Facilitated evaluations
<br />•Coaching
<br />•Community and employee
<br />engagement
<br />Professional History
<br />•Raftelis: Senior Vice President
<br />(2025-present); Vice President
<br />(2021-present); Senior Manager
<br />(2020-2021); Executive Search
<br />Practice Leader, The Novak
<br />Consulting Group (2010-2020)
<br />•Management Partners: Senior
<br />Manager (2009-2010)
<br />•City of Rockville, Maryland: Deputy
<br />City Manager/Acting City Manager/
<br />Assistant City Manager (2001-2009)
<br />•Fairfax County, Virginia: Assistant to
<br />the County Executive (1998 -2001)
<br />•ICMA: Ethics Advisor/ Senior Local
<br />Government Programs Manager
<br />(1994-1998)
<br />•City of Denton, Texas:
<br />Administrative Assistant to the City
<br />Manager (1990-1994)
<br />Education
<br />•Master of Public Administration –
<br />University of Kansas (1990)
<br />•Bachelor of Arts in Communication
<br />Studies/Personnel Administration –
<br />University of Kansas (1988)
<br />Professional Memberships
<br />•International City/County
<br />Management Association (ICMA)
<br />•Engaging Local Government
<br />Leaders (ELGL)
<br />•Maryland City/County Management
<br />Association (MCCMA)
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