City Manager - Robert Bruner

Robert Bruner was born at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak on August 5, 1976. He grew up in Redford Township and moved to South Lyon with his family in 1990. He graduated from South Lyon High School in 1995 and attended Albion College where he double-majored in Political Science and Economics & Management. In 1998 he interned at the White House where he worked with Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Gene B. Sperling and the staff of the National Economic Council.

After graduating from Albion College in 1999, Bruner moved to Detroit and began working as a management and technology consultant with Accenture (then known as Andersen Consulting), the world’s leading provider of management and technology consulting services and solutions. In September 2001, he was one of more than 1,500 employees affected by Accenture’s US workforce reduction. He used the layoff as an opportunity to answer the call to public service by becoming the Assistant to the City Manager of Oak Park, MI in October 2001.

While working in Oak Park, Bruner earned a Master’s of Public Administration at Wayne State University. He bought a home in Ferndale in 2002 and began volunteering with the Ferndale Downtown Development Authority as Chairman of the Economic Restructuring Committee. He was also a member of Ferndale’s Cool Cities Advisory Group and served on the Troy/Allen Project Selection Committee.

Bruner became the Assistant City Manager of Ypsilanti in August 2004. In Ypsilanti, he directed the City’s Human Resources and Recreation Departments as well as the City’s public information and information technology functions. In addition, he served as the Acting City Manager in the Manager’s absence.

Bruner became Ferndale’s City Manager on February 12, 2007. He and his wife reside in Ferndale with their daughter, Audrey.

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The City of Ferndale, Michigan
300 East Nine Mile Road
Ferndale, Michigan  48220
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