Michael Jordan, a seasoned bureaucrat who led the radical remake of Portland City Hall and served as the new system’s inaugural city administrator, will retire next month after four decades of public service.
Jordan, 69, spent years as the top administrator at Metro, the state’s Department of Administrative Services and at Portland’s Environmental Services Bureau.
In 2022, former mayor Ted Wheeler tapped him to become the city’s chief administrative officer. He eventually took the reins as Portland’s first city administrator, a centralized position of power created as part of a voter-approved government overhaul that created a largely executive-style mayor and an expanded 12-member City Council focused on legislating…