{"id":254125,"date":"2026-07-28T22:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254125\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T22:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:58:07","slug":"new-managing-director-city-solicitor-among-philly-cabinet-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254125\/","title":{"rendered":"New managing director, city solicitor among Philly cabinet changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>As Mayor Cherelle Parker\u2019s administration nears 1,000 days in office, several key positions are being filled by new people.\n<\/p>\n<p>Less than a year ahead of next year\u2019s mayoral primary election, the mayor announced Managing Director Adam Thiel would be leaving his office in what was only described as a return \u201cto the private sector.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The mayor spent almost a half-hour offering a glowing review of Thiel\u2019s time in office, which included an extended leave for military service that occurred when two of the city\u2019s major labor unions went on strike last summer.\n  <\/p>\n<p>From 2016 to 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/parking-garage-expected-demolished-fatal-collapse-grays-ferry-section-philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thiel<\/a> was the fire commissioner and also a deputy managing director. He also was the head of the city\u2019s Office of Emergency Management from 2019 to 2022.\n<\/p>\n<p>The man who filled in for Thiel now has his job. Carlton Williams, who ran the mayor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-alleygators-cleanup-trash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cClean and Green\u201d initiatives<\/a>, is the new managing director.\n<\/p>\n<p>Williams started out as a park guard, working within the parks system in the city as a youth. He has held a series of positions in city government, including streets commissioner and senior positions in the Parks and Recreation Department and the Department of Licenses and Inspections.\n<\/p>\n<p>He spoke of his efforts to help people at all times after being given one of the most important positions in city government.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter who you are, or where you live, and what neighborhood you\u2019re from, people can see me on the street and ask me, \u2018Can you help me?\u2019 I give them my card and tell them, \u2018Call me, I\u2019ll see what I can do,\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-reworld-trash-incinerators-contract\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Williams<\/a> said.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[108372,28308,19077,69,71,70,19078],"class_list":["post-254125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-adam-thiel","tag-carlton-williams","tag-mayor-cherelle-parker","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-phillys-100th-mayor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}