Curtis Shook
Curtis Shook is an accomplished professional manager with twenty-two years of local government management experience in rapid growth and resort communities. He is an innovative leader with a successful record of working with intergovernmental agencies, private businesses, and community 
organizations to build strategic plans for the community. Extensive educational and practical background in public/media relations, finance, economic development, growth management, capital improvements, recreation management, organizational development, and personnel management. Expertise in finance, growth management and economic development. He was appointed to the position of City Manager of Douglas, Arizona in June of 2007.
Mr. Shook received his bachelors in Urban Studies from the University of Connecticut in 1976, and was awarded a Masters of Public Administration from Montana State University in 1988. He was also a candidate for Doctor of Public Administration at Arizona State University.
His professional accomplishments include being Assistant to City Manager / Recreation Director for the city of Bozeman Montana, working as Town Administrator for Charleston, Rhode Island, and being the City Manager for Wellsburg, West Virginia, Page Arizona, and Apache Junction, Arizona. He has also served as the First Vice President, Public Finance- Peacock, Hislop, Staley and Given, and Hutchinson, Shockey, Erley & Co. in the field of investment banking from 2002 until 2007.
Mr. Shook's awards and appointments include:
- President, 1999; Board of Directors, 1995/98; member since (1990), the Arizona City Management Association.
- Vice President, Community Relations, East Valley Partnership, since 1997 to 2002.
- Distinguished Management Service Award for Arizona, the American Society of Public Administration (ASPA), May 1993.
- Member, International City Management Association, Since 1984.
- Instructor, Human Resources and Personnel Management Courses, Coconino Community College (Page, Arizona), 1992-1995.
- President, Rhode Island City Management Association, 1989.
