Mayor Hugh Hallman was first elected by voters
in March 2004 and was overwhelmingly reelected in 2008. Hallman also served
on the City Council from 1998 to 2002.
Hallman has a degree from the University of
Chicago’s law school and bachelor’s degrees in economics and political
science from Claremont Men’s College.
Hallman currently serves as headmaster at
Tempe Preparatory Academy, a public school serving grades 6 through 12; he
assumed this position in 2009. He also is a business law attorney,
specializing in domestic and international finance and taxation.
As an economist, Hallman has worked with many
of the country’s top financial experts at Stanford, Harvard, MIT and the
University of Chicago in analyzing markets and competition in various
industries.
As a professor, Hallman has taught business
law and economics at East Kazakhstan State University, and he has lectured
on agribusiness policy at Arizona State University and the Kazakh-American
Free University, which he helped found 1994. He has written various texts
and books, including “How to Do Business in Kazakhstan,” published in 1999,
with a second edition published in 2004.
As a community volunteer, Hallman has devoted
time to local charities like East Valley Habitat for Humanity, Assistance
for Independent Living and Tempe Community Action Agency. He also served as
chairman on the Tempe Aviation Commission.
Hallman and his wife, Susan, are raising three
sons: Louis, Eli and Marcus. They live in a north Tempe neighborhood where
Hallman was raised.
