Carol Steele, Gloucester’s Acting County Administrator, recently earned the Credentialed Manager designation from the International City/County Management Association. Steele is one of more than 1,300 local government management professionals currently credentialed through the ICMA Voluntary Credentialing Program.

To receive the ICMA credential, a member must have significant experience as a senior management executive in local government, have earned a degree (preferably in public administration or a related field), and demonstrated a commitment to high standards of integrity and to lifelong learning and professional development.

Steele qualified for credentialing based on her long tenure with the county as a department head and by serving for more than four years in administration as Assistant County Administrator and then Deputy County Administrator. For the last year, she also has been the Acting County Administrator. In addition, Steele completed programming at the Senior E...