Before joining the City of Pasadena in 2022, Miguel Márquez served as the Chief Operating Officer of the County of Santa Clara, responsible for all operations of the county, the largest in Northern California.
Prior to his role in Santa Clara, Márquez served as an Associate Justice of the California Sixth District Court of Appeal, as the County Counsel for the County of Santa Clara, as the General Counsel of the San Francisco Unified School District, and as a Deputy City Attorney in the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office. He began his public service career as a Deputy County Counsel in San Mateo County. Márquez has also worked for two private law firms (Cooley Godward LLP and Remcho, Johansen & Purcell), and as a management consultant at KPMG Peat Marwick, where he was part of a national financial and organizational consulting practice.
Márquez’s parents immigrated to the United States from México with only a limited amount of formal education. Spanish was his first language, so programs like Head Start were critical to his early education. These formative experiences inspired Márquez’s commitment to public service. A native of Sacramento, Márquez received his law degree from UC Berkeley Law School, his master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and his bachelor’s degree in public policy from Stanford University.
Bio Source: https://www.cityofpasadena.net/city-manager/
