Mayor Michael A. Nutter

Michael A. Nutter is a lifetime Philadelphian with an accomplished career of public service, business, and financial administration. He served as a City Councilperson for nearly 15 years, representing Philadelphia’s fourth district - one of the city’s largest - encompassing the communities of Wynnefield, Overbrook, Roxborough, Manayunk, East Falls, Mt. Airy, and parts of North and West Philadelphia. During his time in council, Nutter worked to lower taxes for Philadelphians. He engineered groundbreaking ethics reform legislation, and led efforts to pass a citywide smoking ban, among countless economic and legislative measures to improve the quality of life for people and businesses in the fourth district and citywide.

In July of 2006, he resigned his City Council seat to run in Philadelphia’s mayoral election. On November 6th, 2007, Michael was overwhelmingly elected Mayor of the City of Philadelphia. He was sworn in as the 98th Mayor of Philadelphia on January 7th, 2008.

Mayor Nutter played a critical role in the development of City Year Greater Philadelphia. Nutter says he first came in contact with the City Year program when he visited Boston in 1997: “One thing led to another and I said, ’Let’s bring this to Philadelphia.’” Nutter paid a visit to Thomas Paine Plaza outside the Municipal Services Building to show his personal support for City Year, and got a workout while he was there: he performed PT with the 200 member corps! He now sits on the Board of Trustees of CYGP. Nutter said of the City Year Corps: “They represent the hope and promise for the future because they’re really doing something in our communities.”