Lana McPherson, MMC, City Clerk, De Soto, Kansas succeeded to the IIMC Presidency during the Organization’s 73rd Annual Conference in Birmingham, AL, on May 22, 2019. She will serve a one-year term, culminating in May 2020.
McPherson has been the City Clerk for De Soto, KS, since 1998. She is the quintessential City Clerk advocate. Known as Clerk Mom – McPherson has devoted her professional career to unselfishly supporting other Clerks – as well as serving her City and community.
She has been involved in her State Association’s committees and has instructed various classes ranging from Ethics to preserving a City’s Heritage. Her State Association recognized her in 2010 with the Mildred Vance Clerk of the Year Award – the State’s highest honor to a Municipal Clerk. From 2005 to 2007, she served as Chair for the City of De Soto’s Sesquicentennial celebration. McPherson also serves on the Kansas Board of Directors for the Midwest Public Risk Municipal Insurance Pool and is a current member of the League of Kansas Municipalities Public Officers and Employees Policy committee.
McPherson is a past IIMC Region VII Director and an Athenian Fellow. She is a true champion of the “I” in IIMC. In 2014, McPherson was a co-winner of IIMC’s Region Director Membership Challenge and gave her complimentary Conference registration that year to one of the Organization’s International members from the Netherlands. In 2016, McPherson received the Organization’s highest honor – the Quill Award, recognized by her peers as an individual who always surpasses what is expected of them in her profession and her community. She is the consummate team player and an inspiration to many Clerks.
Founded in 1947, IIMC is a professional nonprofit association with more than 15,000 members throughout North America and 12 other countries, representing municipalities with populations of 1,000 to more than 10 million. IIMC prepares its membership to meet the challenges of the diverse role of the Municipal Clerk by providing services and continuing educational development opportunities in 46 permanent college-and university-based learning centers. IIMC offers Municipal Clerks a Certified Municipal Clerk Program (CMC), a Master Municipal Clerk Academy (MMCA) Program and other opportunities to benefit members and the government entities they serve. A 26-member Board of Directors governs IIMC.
