Suzanne Bump, State Auditor to Speak at Chamber

Your invited to attend an information session with the State Auditor Suzanne Bump, who will be at the Chamber April 27^th from 8:30-9:30.  Auditor Bump she will be talking about the need for investing in greater accountability in government and will also talk about our work with the opioid crisis, MassHealth, and unfunded mandates to name a few subjects. 

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Suzanne M. Bump is the 25th Auditor of the Commonwealth, one of six constitutional officers in Massachusetts, and the first female to serve in this role in the state’s history. 
Since being elected to office in 2010, Auditor Bump has made it her mission to make government work better. To her, better government means government that is more effective, more efficient, more accountable and more transparent. 
To model the behavior she expects in government, Auditor Bump has implemented the highest standards of professionalism and performance for her office and strives for innovation through the use of emerging technologies. Upon taking office, Auditor Bump was able to lead her office in just three years from failing an outside review from the National State Auditor’s Association to receiving its highest rating in 2014. 
Prior to her election, Auditor Bump served in Governor Deval Patrick’s cabinet as Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development and had represented the Town of Braintree for eight years in House of Representatives. In the private sector, she worked as a business advocate, legal counsel, and has sat on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations including the South Shore Chamber of Commerce and St. Francis House.
Auditor Bump currently chairs the Municipal Finance Oversight Board, serves on the board of the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission, the Massachusetts Teachers’ Retirement System, and is the Immediate Past President of the Association of Governmental Accounting’s Boston Chapter. 
A native of Whitman, Massachusetts, Auditor Bump attended Cardinal Spellman High School and is a graduate of Boston College and Suffolk University School of Law. She now lives in Great Barrington with her husband Paul McDevitt.