David Cooke Fort Worth City Manager

David Cooke was named Fort Worth City Manager in 2014 after  13-1/2 years as County Manager and four years as Deputy County Manager, in Wake County, N.C.; and 12 years with the city of Charlotte, N.C.  David is tasked with implementing the Mayor and City Council’s policies and managing the $1.6 billion city government enterprise with approximately 6,600 employees.  His focus on exceptional customer service, maintaining a long-term perspective, stressing partnerships to provide services and solve complex public policy problems and planning and implementing the infrastructure needs of a city that has grown by 20,000 residents a year has served the city of Fort Worth well the last 8 years.