She then became a litigation attorney, and practiced law in
San Francisco, California and
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[6]
Public service career
Employed by the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, beginning in January 2006, Wyatt was subsequently appointed as the deputy secretary for Human Resources & Management and executive director of the Governor’s Office of Management and Productivity by Pennsylvania Governor
Ed Rendell.[7]
She was then appointed by Rendell as secretary of administration for the
Pennsylvania Office of Administration on August 2, 2007. As a member of Rendell’s cabinet, she headed a state agency that employed six hundred staff who were engaged in facilitating continuity of state government operations by providing human resources, information technology, records management, and travel services to more than eighty thousand other state government personnel who worked for more than two dozen other state agencies with combined operating budgets that exceeded $4.6 billion. During her tenure, she oversaw a system-wide consolidation of information technology services and significant progress toward the completion of the state's 800-megahertz public safety radio system.[8]
She also served on the board of directors of the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority and the board of trustees of the Pennsylvania Employee Benefits Trust Fund.[9]
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Phila. eyes privatizing school subs." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 5, 2015, pp. A01, A04 (subscription required).
^Graham, Kristen A. "
City schools struggle with teacher shortage." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 11,2016, pp. A01, A04 (subscription required).
^Hanna, Maddie. "
Board votes to take back 2 charters." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 18, 2019, pp. B1, B6 (subscription required).
^Hanna, Maddie, Kristen A. Graham and Melanie Burney. "
Schools: How to teach all when some lack resources?" Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 19, 2020, pp. A1, A14 (subscription required).
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Who We Are." Denver, Colorado: The Welcome Party, retrieved online May 22, 2023.
External links
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Naomi Wyatt" (faculty profile), Fels Institute of Government, University of Pennsylvania, retrieved online May 22, 2023.