"I am so passionate about trying to encouraging millennials especially to go into local government service. Because millennials reflect society in a much broader way…because you [students] are the future. You are the ones who will change the face of our local governments, and so you will change the faces of our communities."- Pat Martel, ICMA President

“You have to be courageous and really push others to be intentional in the way that they approach expanding diversity and inclusiveness."- Pat Martel, ICMA President

Much has been written during the past year about the notion that only 13% of local government CAOs are women. But what’s really behind that number?