Ken Webb

Ken Webb has been selected as the new vice mayor of Cleveland following the retirement of longtime Vice Mayor Avery Johnson in August. Webb has been an at-large member of the Cleveland City Council since 2018. Webb graduated from Tennessee Wesleyan University and worked as a staff accountant for a local firm before becoming chief accountant at American Uniform Company in 1981. He then joined Cleveland Utilities as a senior accountant in 1986 and was promoted to manager of accounts two years later. Six years later, Webb joined Cleveland Utilities as senior accountant, later becoming manager of accounts in 1988, senior vice president and chief financial officer in 2012, and then president and CEO in 2013, which he served until his retirement in 2016.