Rosa Inchausti, a 30-year City of Tempe employee, has been appointed to serve as City Manager.  Inchausti recently served as the Chief Deputy City Manager, overseeing the areas of Economic Development, Community Health and Human Services, Community Development, Information Technology, and Strategic Management and Innovation.  

She began her Tempe career in 1993 as the city’s first bilingual Marriage and Family Therapist. Since then Inchausti has continued with her “firsts” as she advanced to be the city’s first Diversity Director, where she worked with City Council to create Tempe’s Anti-Discrimination Ordinance. She then promoted to the position of the city’s first Strategic Management and Diversity Director, where she spearheaded the wastewater testing for COVID-19 and opioids, advancing community health. In this position she also led the city in becoming a nationally-acclaimed “What Works City.” Additionally, Inchausti spent a year as the Interim Municipal Utilities Department Director while concurrently working as the Strategic Management Director. 

In her new role, Inchausti will be the first female to hold the position of City Manager at the City of Tempe. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Loyola Marymount University and a Master’s degree from Northern Arizona University. Inchausti has been a Tempe resident for over 30 years. She raised her two daughters in south Tempe and now resides in Tempe’s urban core.