James E Leidlein

James Leidlein has been a city manager in Michigan for over thirty years. He was also employed as a labor economist with the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C. He earned an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Western Michigan University and a graduate degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. He has been an adjunct faculty member in the Political Science Department at Wayne State University in Detroit for twenty years. He has taught...See more

James Leidlein has been a city manager in Michigan for over thirty years. He was also employed as a labor economist with the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C. He earned an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Western Michigan University and a graduate degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. He has been an adjunct faculty member in the Political Science Department at Wayne State University in Detroit for twenty years. He has taught introductory courses in American Government and Public Administration and graduate classes in Labor Relations and Administrative Ethics. He has been published in Public Administration Review, Public Integrity and is cited in Public Personnel Management and Berkley and Rouse's The Craft of Public Administration. He is also a member of the Michigan Local Government Management Association's Ethics Committee. He resides with his wife, Kathleen, in Harper Woods, Michigan. See less