Who's who on third floor of City Hall

The biggest freshman class in the 80-year history of Cincinnati City Council has also brought with it a wave of new faces to City Hall's third floor. A roundup of who's where:

• Mayor Mark Mallory has hired Carla Walker as his chief of staff. Walker worked for former Mayor Roxanne Qualls, and went on to hold Democratic party positions in Cincinnati and Columbus. Press secretary is Jason Barron, who ran Mallory's Ohio Senate office and was his campaign spokesman in the final weeks. Scheduler is Gwen Larkin. Protegee Shawn Butler, field director for the Mallory campaign, will work on constituent service and other issues. Campaign manager Simone Lightfoot will work as a part-time contract employee.
  
  
• Vice Mayor Jim Tarbell keeps Ron Wahl and Norma Walker, perhaps the most experienced council office team on the third floor.
  
  
• Jeff Berding brings on Alyson Steele, a former council hand who was communications director for the Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Council before running his campaign, and Victoria Stump, assistant to former Chamber of Commerce boss John Williams.
  
  
• Laketa Cole retains Nicole Pearson and T.J. White.
  
  
• Chris Bortz turned to Charterite veterans Jeff Cramerding, director of the Charter Committee, and Tracy Schweschenau, who has worked for Tarbell, state Rep. Tom Brinkman Jr. and former Councilman Phil Heimlich.
  

• John Cranley keeps Julie Brinker, Marvin Hawkins and high school buddy Elliot Ruther.
  
  
• David Crowley's team remains Rocky Merz and Shirley Dunham.
  
  
• Leslie Ghiz hired campaign manager Matt Jones, a former campaign staffer for Hamilton County Commissioner Pat DeWine, and Scott Gehring, a former candidate for Delhi Township trustee.
  

• Chris Monzel keeps chief of staff Bradford Beckett and adds Christa Criddle of Finneytown, who the Bush campaign ranked as its 11th most active volunteer recruiter of the 2004 campaign.
  
  
• Cecil Thomas has hired Sherry R. Taylor and Freddie Brewton, both of whom worked for him when he was director of the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission.

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