Ember Strange
Chief Financial Officer, City of North Little Rock, Arkansas
Ember Strange is the Chief Financial Officer for the City of North Little Rock, Arkansas. She has 19 years of experience in management and governmental accounting.
Ember is a member of the GFOA Executive Board and serves as the Ex-officio of the Committee on Retirement and Benefits Administration. Prior to joining the board, she served as the Vice Chair of the Committee on Accounting, Auditing and Financial Reporting and is past president of the Women’s Public Finance Network. Ember is also a past president of the Arkansas GFOA.
Ember attended the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program at the Harvard Kennedy School in Boston. She also attended GFOA’s Advanced Government Finance Institute at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In 2023 Ember was named as a CFO of the Year Finalist by Arkansas Business in the Public Sector/Education category. Ember received her Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and her Masters of Accountancy both from Arkansas State University.