Clarence E. Anthony

Advisory Board

Clarence E. Anthony is CEO and Executive Director of the National League of Cities (NLC), the largest and oldest organization representing America's cities, towns, and villages and their leaders. Under his leadership since January 2013, NLC helped deliver billions of dollars in direct federal relief through the CARES Act and historic American Rescue Plan Act to help support local governments as they respond, recover, and rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic. In this time, NLC also ushered passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, delivering transformative investments in transportation, broadband, and water to communities across the country.

Mr. Anthony began his career in public service as mayor of South Bay, Florida, for 24 years. Mr. Anthony has served as president of the Florida League of Cities and National League of Cities. Following his time in office, Mr. Anthony represented local governments on the world stage as founding treasurer and interim manager of United Cities and Local Governments. He later founded Anthony Government Solutions, a firm focused on strategic visioning, policy development, and management restructuring for government and private sector organizations.

He presently serves on the Board of Directors of Destination DC where he served as Treasurer and the Board of Directors of the American Society of Association Executives. Corporate boards include Bealls, Inc and Build America Mutual.